Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
Episodes
Showing 20 of 24- Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?6/20/20269 min
- Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?6/17/202629 min
- Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?6/13/20269 min
- Education, Education, Education (and immigration)6/10/202629 min
- Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France6/6/20269 min
- Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes6/3/202629 min
- The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo5/30/20269 min
- Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?5/27/202629 min
- Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?5/23/20269 min
- Are refugees more likely to commit crime?5/20/202628 min
- Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?5/16/20269 min
- Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking5/9/20269 min
- Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?5/2/20269 min
- Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?4/25/20269 min
- Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?4/18/20269 min
- Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep4/11/20269 min
- How likely is ‘likely’?4/4/20269 min
- How much water does AI consume?3/28/20269 min
- Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 20003/21/20269 min
- Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?3/14/20269 min