More or Less: Behind the Stats
Summary: Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news. Numbers are used in every area of public debate. But are they always reliable? Tim and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. A half-hour programme broadcast at 1600 on Friday afternoons and repeated at 2000 on Sundays on Radio 4. BBC World Service broadcasts a short edition over the weekend.
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Podcasts:
In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor’s series “Brain Culture”. He explores how neuroscience will change society, asking how the justice system will change now that we can scan criminal brains.
In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying, Olympic economics and the Janitor problem.
In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of social surveys.
On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is Tendulkar the greatest sportsman?
More or Less has the latest on salt, 'zero tolerance' policing, and how to predict the adult height of growing children.
In More or Less this week: riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.
Tim Harford and the More or Less team unpick more numbers in the news. This week: US debt, NHS funding and the "27 club".
Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.
More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest moment.
In More or Less this week: a cornucopia of wedding-related numbers. And AV explained.
Tim Harford and team look at GDP, school standards and the results of 'The Other Census'.
Tim Harford and the team examine examine tuition fees, drugs testing and inflation.
In More or Less this week: youth unemployment, Trumpton and social mobility.
Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news. Are the cuts "small"? And we introduce "The Other Census".
In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. In the third and final programme, 'Monsters', Michael investigates another view of economics: that it is the story of people, how they think and behave.