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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
Episodes (783 available)
How a 23-year-old mathematician used AI to crack an unsolved maths problem
9 mins
Vaping vs smoking: how the evidence on cancer and other health risks compare
9 mins
How a stat about cows and water is not all it seems
9 mins
Why a Politico headline overstated vaccine scepticism in the US
9 mins
Investigating the scale of bird deaths caused by wind turbines
9 mins
How evidence eventually showed front sleeping was linked to sudden infant deaths
9 mins
Adam Kucharski explains what people really mean when they use probability language
9 mins
We take a deep dive into AI’s water consumption
9 mins
Why Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise
9 mins
Investigating a scientific paper analysing the strength and fitness of transgender women
9 mins
