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WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
Does the world really spend three times as much on ice cream than on humanitarian aid?
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
Trump tells the Truth
The fact-checkers have been working overtime looking into the numbers used by Donald Trump during his campaign to become President of the USA. In the wake of the election next week, we take a look at…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
Is a girl under 15 married every seven seconds? And beware dangerous algorithms
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
How many people die for every kilo of cocaine? More Or Less investigates.
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
When maths can get you locked up.
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
It’s now a year since the UN set its new Sustainable Development Goals to try to make the world a better place. They include 17 goals and a massive 169 targets on subjects like disease, education and…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
Polling on the first TV debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appears to be divided over who won it. But not all polls are equal. If the people being polled aren’t representative of the pop…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
This week Donald Trump claimed that there are some inner city areas in the US which are suffering from the worst crime rates ever. They are so dangerous, he says, that Afghanistan is safer than many …
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
Can economics help us work out the perfect amount to spend on a wedding gift? Our reporter Jordan Dunbar is in a tricky situation-he’s heading to an old friend’s wedding and needs to figure out how m…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
Over the last two months the Government in the Philippines has been encouraging the police to clampdown on the illegal drug trade. The new President, Rodrigo Duterte, went as far as saying that citiz…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago