podcast

More or Less

by Tim Harford and BBC Radio 4

Tim Harford and the BBC team take a number from the week's news (a European pension league table, a claim that China is 'missing' a billion people, a climate-cost paper with an Uzbekistan-shaped hole in it) and check where it came from and whether it means what the headline says. It is half an hour a week of statistical self-defence, and the habits it teaches last longer than any single claim it checks.