Podcast Episodes

Is the US Census Under Threat?

The survey question that could affect the accuracy of its results.

The United States are due to run their next nationwide census in 2020, but already critics are warning that underfunding and proposed…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers

First sexual experience - checking the facts A short film for the Draw A Line campaign has made the claim that one in three girls first sexual experience is rape. This seems shockingly high, but what…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers

If you ask an economist to explain what is happening in a country’s economy. They rely on economic data points to describe what is happening – they might talk about the unemployment rate, average wag…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

Gender Pay Gap This week the Office for National Statistics has published analysis trying to find out why it is that on average women are paid less than men in specific industries and occupations. We…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

A forgotten French mathematician is the focus of our programme. He anticipated both Einstein's theories and the application of maths to the stock market. Born in the 1870s, his work was unusual at th…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

Did missed appointments cost the NHS £1 billion last year? New figures published recently suggest that the financial cost to the NHS for missed appointments was £1 billion last year. But our listener…

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?

Why it isn’t as simple to work out as you think.

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk.

Published on 7 years, 11 months ago

WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

Measuring the energy used to keep the cryptocurrency secure.

Published on 8 years ago

WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

Could the US President’s Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires

Published on 8 years ago