More or Less: Behind the Stats

600 Episodes

1. When do food shortages become a famine?

   Published: 26/11/2022
2. A $220 billion World Cup?

   Published: 19/11/2022
3. Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

   Published: 14/11/2022
4. Improving the numbers in the news

   Published: 12/11/2022
5. Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

   Published: 05/11/2022
6. Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

   Published: 29/10/2022
7. Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

   Published: 22/10/2022
8. Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

   Published: 15/10/2022
9. Catching Chess Cheats with Data

   Published: 08/10/2022
10. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 07/10/2022
11. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 05/10/2022
12. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 01/10/2022
13. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 28/09/2022
14. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 24/09/2022
15. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 22/09/2022
16. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 17/09/2022
17. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 14/09/2022
18. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 10/09/2022
19. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 07/09/2022
20. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 03/09/2022