More or Less: Behind the Stats

597 Episodes

1. Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

   Published: 11/01/2025
2. Numbers of the year part 2

   Published: 04/01/2025
3. Numbers of the year 2024

   Published: 28/12/2024
4. Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

   Published: 21/12/2024
5. How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?

   Published: 14/12/2024
6. Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

   Published: 07/12/2024
7. Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

   Published: 30/11/2024
8. Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

   Published: 23/11/2024
9. Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?

   Published: 16/11/2024
10. Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

    Published: 09/11/2024
11. What can economics learn from sport?

    Published: 02/11/2024
12. Are older drivers more dangerous?

    Published: 30/10/2024
13. Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

    Published: 26/10/2024
14. Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

    Published: 23/10/2024
15. Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

    Published: 19/10/2024
16. When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

    Published: 16/10/2024
17. Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

    Published: 12/10/2024
18. Should the government target persnuffle?

    Published: 09/10/2024
19. Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    Published: 05/10/2024
20. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Published: 02/10/2024