679 Episodes

  1. Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

    Published: 21/05/2022
  2. Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    Published: 14/05/2022
  3. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Published: 07/05/2022
  4. Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

    Published: 30/04/2022
  5. Understanding India through Data

    Published: 23/04/2022
  6. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

    Published: 15/04/2022
  7. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    Published: 09/04/2022
  8. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    Published: 02/04/2022
  9. Pizza and Nuclear War

    Published: 20/03/2022
  10. Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

    Published: 13/03/2022
  11. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Published: 06/03/2022
  12. Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

    Published: 02/03/2022
  13. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Published: 27/02/2022
  14. Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

    Published: 23/02/2022
  15. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    Published: 20/02/2022
  16. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    Published: 16/02/2022
  17. Testosterone and sport

    Published: 13/02/2022
  18. The prime minister in statistical bother

    Published: 09/02/2022
  19. Can you fool your brain?

    Published: 06/02/2022
  20. Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

    Published: 02/02/2022

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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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