More or Less: Behind the Stats

In early February 2025, something strange started happening across US government websites.... more

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: Lib Dem leader Sir Ed... more

On September the 10th 2025, right-wing political activist and media personality Charlie Ki... more

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: Nigel Farage says 6.5... more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the world faces a severe labour shortage – 50 million workers... more

Tim Harford looks at some of the numbers in the news. This week: Is it true that interest ... more

Hollywood has given sharks a terrible reputation. But in reality, the finned fish should b... more

Fully autonomous cars are here. In a handful of cities across the US and China, robotaxis ... more

Are office temperatures set too low in the summer for women to be comfortable? This idea ... more

In early July, the Mediterranean Sea experienced a marine heatwave. The surface of the wat... more

On Friday 1st August the US Bureau of Labor Statistics put out their job report data for A... more

In June 2022 the United States Supreme Court passed what became known as ‘the Dobbs decisi... more

We’re living through boom-times for Artificial Intelligence, with more and more of us usin... more

In the midst of the television coverage of Soccer Aid, a celebrity soccer match organised ... more

Manchester United are terrible, even according to their own manager. Last season saw their... more

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news and in life. This week: Is the se... more

How does economics help us understand conflicts through history? That’s the question that... more

Tim Harford looks at some of the numbers in the news and in life. This week: Is church-goi... more

It’s been over three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the human tol... more

Tim Harford looks at some of the numbers in the news and in life. In this episode: Why is ... more

Untruths sneak into our lives in all kinds of ways. Sometimes they’re outright lies. Blata... more

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news, and in life. This week: We debun... more

The number of satellites orbiting our planet has been rapidly increasing in recent years. ... more

What does the government mean when it commits to developing a “10-times more lethal” army?... more