More or Less: Behind the Stats

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

Netflix has a big new show named after and inspired by a classic problem in astrophysics, 'The...

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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes per day? That’s the claim circulating on...

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• 12 días

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist and More or Less hero, has died at...

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• 19 días

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman – the Nobel prize-winning behavioural...

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• 21 días

What's happening to arctic ice?

The area of ice covering the arctic ocean has been in a state of long decline, as climate change...

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• 24 días

Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

According to the head of the British military, the Russian government spends 40% of its budget on...

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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

For over 50 years it’s been widely reported that speaking before a group is people’s number one...

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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

As running races get longer, the gap between male and female competitors seems to close. Tim...

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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

Is school funding at record levels as the education secretary claimed? Why did the ONS change how...

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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

In the NBA, the US professional basketball league, the average player is a shade over 6ft 6...

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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

What does per capita GDP tell us about the UK economy? Did the government spend £94bn helping...

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The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

Big medical datasets pose a serious problem. Thousands of patients’ health records are an...

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Debt, students, shark and chips

What is the government’s fiscal rule on the national debt? Are international students stealing...

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The global gender split in young people’s politics

In a surprising new trend, young men and women around the world are dividing by gender on their...

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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

Do you really pay more in council tax on a semi in Hartlepool than a mansion in Westminster? How...

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A pocket-size history of the calculator

How was the calculator invented? How did it go from something the size of a table to something...

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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

Was there really a 5% measles vaccination rate in Birmingham? Has Brexit already cost 6% of the...

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Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?

We investigate Oxfam’s claim that “since 2020, the five richest men in the world have seen their...

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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

Was Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves wrong about the increase in the price of the weekly...

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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

We investigate how the vast possibilities in a game of chess compare to the vastness of the...

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