679 Episodes

  1. Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

    Published: 27/08/2022
  2. The numbers behind “natural” birth control

    Published: 20/08/2022
  3. Is opinion polling broken?

    Published: 13/08/2022
  4. Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 06/08/2022
  5. How our world measures up

    Published: 30/07/2022
  6. Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

    Published: 23/07/2022
  7. Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

    Published: 16/07/2022
  8. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 09/07/2022
  9. How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

    Published: 02/07/2022
  10. Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

    Published: 29/06/2022
  11. Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

    Published: 25/06/2022
  12. Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Published: 22/06/2022
  13. How often do people have sex?

    Published: 18/06/2022
  14. Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Published: 15/06/2022
  15. Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

    Published: 11/06/2022
  16. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    Published: 08/06/2022
  17. Are girls starting puberty earlier?

    Published: 04/06/2022
  18. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    Published: 01/06/2022
  19. Noisy Decisions

    Published: 28/05/2022
  20. Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

    Published: 25/05/2022

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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