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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.

Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

3 years
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
9m

Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

3 years
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
8m

Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?

3 years
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
10m

UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

3 years
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
28m

Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

3 years
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
10m

Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

3 years
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
29m

Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

3 years
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
10m

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

3 years
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
28m

Spreadsheet disasters

3 years
Spreadsheet disasters
10m

The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

3 years
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
28m

Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

3 years
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
9m

Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

3 years
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
28m

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

3 years
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
10m

Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

3 years
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
28m

Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

3 years
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
8m

Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

3 years
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
29m

How we shook the world of very large numbers

3 years
How we shook the world of very large numbers
8m

A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

3 years
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
28m

A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

3 years
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
28m

Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

3 years
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
9m

Irish pubs - a global numbers game

3 years
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
10m

Numbers of the Year 2022

3 years
Numbers of the Year 2022
8m

Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

3 years
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
8m

Why are data so important in determining how we live?

3 years
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
8m

The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

3 years
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
10m

When do food shortages become a famine?

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When do food shortages become a famine?
8m

A $220 billion World Cup?

3 years
A $220 billion World Cup?
8m

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

3 years
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
14m

Improving the numbers in the news

3 years
Improving the numbers in the news
8m

Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

3 years
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
8m