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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)
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
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Oct 15, 202210:04pending
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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Oct 8, 20228:59pending
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
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Oct 7, 202228:28pending
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
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Oct 1, 20229:36pending
Mini-budget, TV audience for the Queen’s funeral and 0.5 on the Richter scale
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Sep 28, 202229:10pending
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
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Sep 24, 202210:19pending
The size of Ukraine’s offensive, weak pound and how much do women really exercis...
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Sep 22, 202228:43pending
How bad is fashion for the environment?
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Sep 17, 20228:58pending
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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Sep 14, 202228:53pending
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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Sep 10, 20228:58pending
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
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Sep 7, 202228:38pending
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
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Sep 3, 20228:58pending
Energy prices, excess deaths and Wales v England in counting
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Aug 31, 202228:57pending
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
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Aug 27, 20228:58pending
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
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Aug 20, 20229:41pending
Is opinion polling broken?
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Aug 13, 20228:58pending
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
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Aug 6, 20228:58pending
How our world measures up
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Jul 30, 20228:58pending
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
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Jul 23, 202210:06pending
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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Jul 16, 202210:01pending
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 9, 202210:10pending
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
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Jul 2, 20229:37pending
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can't the French count properly?
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Jun 29, 202229:16pending
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
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Jun 25, 202211:00pending
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
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Jun 22, 202228:37pending
How often do people have sex?
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Jun 18, 20228:58pending
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
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Jun 15, 202228:38pending
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
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Jun 11, 202210:16pending
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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Jun 8, 202228:51pending
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
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Jun 4, 20228:53pending
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
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Jun 1, 202228:59pending
Noisy Decisions
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May 28, 20228:58pending
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
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May 25, 202229:14pending
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed...
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May 21, 20228:58pending
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
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May 14, 20228:59pending
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
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May 7, 20228:58pending
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
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Apr 30, 20228:58pending
Understanding India through Data
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Apr 23, 20228:58pending
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
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Apr 15, 20228:59pending
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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Apr 9, 20228:58pending
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
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Apr 2, 20228:58pending
Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
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Mar 27, 202210:18pending
Pizza and Nuclear War
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Mar 20, 20228:58pending
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
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Mar 13, 202211:53pending
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
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Mar 6, 20228:58pending
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
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Mar 2, 202229:08pending
Did lockdowns save any lives?
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Feb 27, 20228:58pending
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
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Feb 23, 202228:28pending
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
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Feb 20, 20228:58pending
Questioning claims about Covid and children
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Feb 16, 202229:08pending
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