More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Is opinion polling broken?
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
How our world measures up
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
How often do people have sex?
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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