670 Episodes

  1. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 5/10/2022
  2. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 1/10/2022
  3. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 28/09/2022
  4. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 24/09/2022
  5. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 22/09/2022
  6. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 17/09/2022
  7. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 14/09/2022
  8. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 10/09/2022
  9. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 7/09/2022
  10. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 3/09/2022
  11. Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

    Published: 31/08/2022
  12. Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

    Published: 27/08/2022
  13. The numbers behind “natural” birth control

    Published: 20/08/2022
  14. Is opinion polling broken?

    Published: 13/08/2022
  15. Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 6/08/2022
  16. How our world measures up

    Published: 30/07/2022
  17. Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

    Published: 23/07/2022
  18. Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

    Published: 16/07/2022
  19. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 9/07/2022
  20. How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

    Published: 2/07/2022

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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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