670 Episodes

  1. The psychological economics of gift giving

    Published: 19/12/2021
  2. Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

    Published: 12/12/2021
  3. Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

    Published: 5/12/2021
  4. Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

    Published: 28/11/2021
  5. A TikTok tale

    Published: 21/11/2021
  6. The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

    Published: 14/11/2021
  7. Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

    Published: 7/11/2021
  8. The art of counting

    Published: 31/10/2021
  9. The numbers behind Squid Game

    Published: 24/10/2021
  10. The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

    Published: 17/10/2021
  11. Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

    Published: 7/10/2021
  12. Twenty years of More or Less

    Published: 6/10/2021
  13. The Gender Pay Gap

    Published: 3/10/2021
  14. Is it easy being green?

    Published: 29/09/2021
  15. Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut

    Published: 22/09/2021
  16. How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

    Published: 19/09/2021
  17. Death, Tax and Dishwashers

    Published: 15/09/2021
  18. Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

    Published: 8/09/2021
  19. The Bill for Afghanistan

    Published: 4/09/2021
  20. Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

    Published: 1/09/2021

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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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