More or Less: Behind the Stats

578 Episodes

1. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

   Published: 02/10/2024
2. The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

   Published: 28/09/2024
3. Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

   Published: 25/09/2024
4. Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

   Published: 21/09/2024
5. How do you count millionaires?

   Published: 18/09/2024
6. Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

   Published: 14/09/2024
7. How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

   Published: 11/09/2024
8. Who pays when trade wars heat up?

   Published: 07/09/2024
9. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

   Published: 04/09/2024
10. Where have Cuba’s people gone?

    Published: 31/08/2024
11. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    Published: 24/08/2024
12. Are companies making more money from their customers?

    Published: 17/08/2024
13. Is planet Earth getting greener?

    Published: 10/08/2024
14. Does a language die every two weeks?

    Published: 03/08/2024
15. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    Published: 27/07/2024
16. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Published: 20/07/2024
17. Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

    Published: 13/07/2024
18. The magic of trigonometry

    Published: 06/07/2024
19. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    Published: 03/07/2024
20. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    Published: 29/06/2024