More or Less: Behind the Stats
Business
Numbers of the Year 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
When do food shortages become a famine?
A $220 billion World Cup?
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Improving the numbers in the news
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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