More or Less
BBC Radio 4
Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Episodes
Mentioned books
Sep 30, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?
Sep 27, 2019 • 24min
Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?
Sep 23, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.
Sep 20, 2019 • 25min
Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims
Sep 16, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?
Sep 13, 2019 • 24min
Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.
Sep 9, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?
Sep 6, 2019 • 24min
Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.
Sep 2, 2019 • 9min
WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?
Aug 30, 2019 • 27min
Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?
