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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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Episodes (1426)
Why are so many ex-prisoners being sent back to prison?
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Sep 9, 202628:31completed
Is every card shuffle unique?
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Sep 5, 20268:58completed
Bonus podcast: Norman Numbers
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Sep 4, 20266:44completed
Do Germans really take 19.5 days of sick leave per year?
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Aug 29, 20268:58pending
How much of the world isn’t owned by anyone?
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Aug 22, 20268:58pending
14 million deaths or zero deaths? The impact of the USAID cuts
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Aug 15, 20268:58pending
How much of all the money in the world does Elon Musk have?
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Aug 8, 20268:58pending
Would you take £50,000 or a 50/50 chance of £1m?
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Aug 1, 20268:59pending
The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
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Jul 30, 202629:37pending
Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?
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Jul 25, 20268:58pending
How much luck do you need to win the World Cup?
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Jul 18, 20268:59pending
Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?
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Jul 11, 20268:58pending
Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?
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Jul 8, 202628:28pending
Does a full moon make crime rates go up?
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Jul 4, 20268:58pending
Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’
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Jul 1, 202628:29pending
Benefits v minimum wage: Which pays more?
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Jun 24, 202628:29pending
Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?
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Jun 20, 20268:57pending
Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?
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Jun 17, 202628:38pending
Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?
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Jun 13, 20268:58pending
Education, Education, Education (and Immigration)
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Jun 10, 202628:37pending
Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France
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Jun 6, 20268:58pending
Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
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Jun 3, 202628:48pending
The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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May 30, 20268:58pending
Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
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May 27, 202628:39pending
Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?
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May 23, 20268:55pending
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
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May 20, 202628:10pending
Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?
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May 16, 20268:58pending
Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking
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May 9, 20268:58pending
Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?
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May 2, 20269:03pending
Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?
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Apr 25, 20268:59failed
Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?
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Apr 25, 20268:59pending
Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
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Apr 18, 20269:05failed
Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep
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Apr 11, 20268:58failed
How likely is ‘likely’?
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Apr 4, 20268:58failed
How much water does AI consume?
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Mar 28, 20268:59failed
Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000
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Mar 21, 20268:58failed
Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?
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Mar 14, 20268:57failed
US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
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Mar 7, 20268:58completed
Has a company really discovered a million new species?
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Feb 28, 20268:58pending
Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
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Feb 21, 20268:58pending
Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
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Feb 17, 20268:58pending
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
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Feb 7, 20268:58pending
Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
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Jan 31, 20268:58pending
Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
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Jan 28, 202628:57pending
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
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Jan 24, 20268:58pending
How close is Greenland to the United States?
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Jan 21, 202629:05pending
No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer
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Jan 17, 20268:58pending
Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?
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Jan 14, 202628:18pending
Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?
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Jan 10, 20268:59pending
Immigration, Benefits and Inequality
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Jan 9, 202628:40pending
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