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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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May 28, 2022 · 8 min
Noisy Decisions
The world’s most famous psychologist on how 'noise' impacts our decision making
May 25, 2022 · 29 min
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?
May 21, 2022 · 8 min
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress
May 14, 2022 · 8 min
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
May 7, 2022 · 8 min
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
Apr 30, 2022 · 8 min
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
Apr 23, 2022 · 8 min
Understanding India through Data
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
Apr 15, 2022 · 8 min
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
Apr 9, 2022 · 8 min
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
Apr 2, 2022 · 8 min
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
Mar 27, 2022 · 10 min
Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
What’s behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?
Mar 20, 2022 · 8 min
Pizza and Nuclear War
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War
Mar 13, 2022 · 11 min
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim.
Mar 6, 2022 · 8 min
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine
Mar 2, 2022 · 29 min
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?
Feb 27, 2022 · 8 min
Did lockdowns save any lives?
Did lockdowns actually save any lives?
Feb 23, 2022 · 28 min
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Jabs for five to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels
Feb 20, 2022 · 8 min
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?
Feb 16, 2022 · 29 min
Questioning claims about Covid and children
How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?
Feb 13, 2022 · 8 min
Testosterone and sport
Trans women’s participation in elite sport