More or Less: Behind the Stats

600 Episodes

1. Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

   Published: 02/02/2022
2. Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

   Published: 30/01/2022
3. Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

   Published: 26/01/2022
4. Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

   Published: 23/01/2022
5. Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

   Published: 19/01/2022
6. QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

   Published: 16/01/2022
7. Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

   Published: 12/01/2022
8. How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

   Published: 09/01/2022
9. Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

   Published: 02/01/2022
10. Numbers of 2021

    Published: 26/12/2021
11. The psychological economics of gift giving

    Published: 19/12/2021
12. Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

    Published: 12/12/2021
13. Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

    Published: 05/12/2021
14. Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

    Published: 28/11/2021
15. A TikTok tale

    Published: 21/11/2021
16. The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

    Published: 14/11/2021
17. Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

    Published: 07/11/2021
18. The art of counting

    Published: 31/10/2021
19. The numbers behind Squid Game

    Published: 24/10/2021
20. The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

    Published: 17/10/2021