679 Episodes

  1. Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 17/10/2021
  20. Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

    Published: 07/10/2021

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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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