More or Less: Behind the Stats

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More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Can you fool your brain?

Have you given up on your New Year’s resolution yet? Every year many of us make the promise to...

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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

Conservative politicians have taken to the airwaves to tell us to forget the parties, and just...

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Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

Under lockdown, couples were destined to find themselves closer than ever before, but despite...

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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

Food writer Jack Monroe sparked national debate this week when she tweeted about food price hikes...

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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

In early January several newspapers ran article claiming that ‘women are 32% more likely to die...

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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon? Headlines asserting this were...

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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

In December, Republican politician Lauren Boebert tweeted the claim that ‘365,348 children went...

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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

The pandemic seems to be entering a new phase as Omicron has taken hold. Is it milder? And how...

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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

In October of last year popular Youtubers Mark Rober and the enigmatically named Mr Beast pledged...

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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

In recent years population growth has slowed rapidly. Experts believe that the global population...

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Numbers of 2021

A guide to the most concerning, striking and downright extraordinary numbers of 2021. Tim Harford...

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The psychological economics of gift giving

Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year – if you have something to sell that is. Every...

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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

Immunity to Covid-19. We've all been hoping to develop it ever since the virus emerged two years...

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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

Masks, you may not have worn them before 2020 but now we’re all at it. With the rise of the...

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Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

Vaccines are the best way to stop deaths and serious cases related to covid19, this is an...

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A TikTok tale

Nowadays if you are an academic and who needs some participants for a study you go online, but...

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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

A French minister told people to eat fewer croissants at this year’s COP26 summit, after the menu...

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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

When Professor Martin Schweinsberg found that he was consistently reaching different conclusions...

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The art of counting

Who is counting, why are they counting, and what are they are counting? These three questions...

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The numbers behind Squid Game

Netflix has announced that South Korean survival drama Squid Game is its most popular series...

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