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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)
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
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Feb 21, 202428:23pending
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
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Feb 17, 20249:47pending
Debt, students, shark and chips
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Feb 14, 202428:35pending
The global gender split in young people’s politics
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Feb 10, 20248:58pending
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
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Feb 7, 202428:43pending
A pocket-size history of the calculator
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Feb 3, 20249:11pending
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
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Jan 31, 202428:44pending
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
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Jan 27, 202410:05pending
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
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Jan 24, 202428:32pending
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
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Jan 20, 20248:58pending
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
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Jan 17, 202423:56pending
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
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Jan 13, 20248:58pending
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
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Jan 10, 202428:46pending
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
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Jan 6, 20248:58pending
Numbers of the year 2023
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Dec 30, 202313:08pending
Can chocolate be better than salad?
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Dec 23, 20238:59pending
China’s missing numbers
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Dec 16, 20238:58pending
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
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Dec 9, 20238:58pending
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
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Dec 2, 20239:58pending
A boy meets girl meets stats story
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Nov 25, 20238:58pending
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
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Nov 18, 20238:58pending
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
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Nov 11, 202310:00pending
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
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Nov 4, 20238:57pending
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
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Oct 28, 20239:23pending
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
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Oct 21, 20238:58pending
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
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Oct 14, 202312:52pending
Are half the words in English from French?
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Oct 7, 20239:45pending
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
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Oct 4, 202328:25pending
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
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Sep 30, 20238:58pending
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
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Sep 27, 202330:25pending
Which city has the longest canals?
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Sep 23, 20239:35pending
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
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Sep 20, 202327:47pending
How to approach the world through numbers
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Sep 16, 20239:28pending
Skin cancer, London rents and your great-great-great-granddaughter
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Sep 13, 202328:52pending
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
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Sep 11, 202314:11pending
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
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Sep 6, 202328:43pending
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
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Sep 2, 20238:59pending
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
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Aug 30, 202328:38pending
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
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Aug 26, 20239:53pending
How many butterflies are there in the world?
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Aug 19, 20238:58pending
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League...
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Aug 12, 20239:48pending
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
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Aug 5, 20238:59pending
Data, extreme weather and climate change
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Jul 29, 20238:58pending
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
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Jul 22, 20239:42pending
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
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Jul 15, 20239:29pending
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 8, 20239:41pending
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
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Jul 5, 202328:56pending
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
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Jul 1, 20239:35pending
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
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Jun 28, 202331:22pending
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
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Jun 24, 20238:58pending
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