More or Less: Behind the Stats
Business
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Numbers of 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
A TikTok tale
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
The art of counting
The numbers behind Squid Game
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
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