More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.

Episodes

Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?

Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?

Does a full moon make crime rates go up?

Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’

The messy history behind the modern calendar

Benefits vs minimum wage: Which pays more?

Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?

Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?

Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?

Education, Education, Education (and immigration)

Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France

Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes

The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?

Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?

Are refugees more likely to commit crime?

Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?

Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking

Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?

Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?