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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)
When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
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Oct 16, 202428:43pending
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
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Oct 12, 20248:57pending
Should the government target persnuffle?
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Oct 9, 202427:55pending
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
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Oct 5, 202410:13pending
How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
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Oct 2, 202428:42pending
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Sep 28, 20248:58pending
Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
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Sep 25, 202428:37pending
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
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Sep 21, 202410:00pending
How do you count millionaires?
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Sep 18, 202428:50pending
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
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Sep 14, 20248:59pending
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
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Sep 11, 202427:42pending
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
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Sep 7, 20248:58pending
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
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Sep 4, 202428:53pending
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
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Aug 31, 20249:02pending
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
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Aug 24, 20248:58pending
Are companies making more money from their customers?
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Aug 17, 20248:57pending
Is planet Earth getting greener?
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Aug 10, 202410:42pending
Does a language die every two weeks?
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Aug 3, 20249:49pending
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
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Jul 27, 202412:59pending
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
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Jul 20, 202410:04pending
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
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Jul 13, 20248:59pending
The magic of trigonometry
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Jul 6, 20249:35pending
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
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Jul 3, 202437:24pending
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
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Jun 29, 20249:03pending
Election claims and erection claims
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Jun 26, 202428:29pending
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
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Jun 22, 20249:31pending
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
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Jun 19, 202431:52pending
Shakespeare’s maths
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Jun 15, 20249:53pending
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
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Jun 12, 202428:31pending
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
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Jun 8, 20249:13pending
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
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Jun 5, 202430:05pending
Data for India
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Jun 1, 20248:58pending
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
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May 29, 202428:41pending
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
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May 25, 202410:16pending
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
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May 22, 202429:05pending
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
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May 18, 20249:49pending
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in li...
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May 11, 202410:20pending
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
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Apr 26, 20248:58pending
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
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Apr 20, 202411:53pending
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
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Apr 13, 20248:58pending
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
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Apr 6, 20248:57pending
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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Mar 30, 20248:58pending
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Mar 28, 20249:12pending
What's happening to Arctic ice?
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Mar 25, 20249:48pending
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
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Mar 16, 20248:58pending
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
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Mar 9, 20248:58pending
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
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Feb 28, 202428:59pending
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
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