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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
As the series draws to a close, Tim Harford and the More or Less team are packing in the statistical goodies so that you can go into numerical hibernation until August!
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - HPV Vaccine, Qatar migrant workers and chocolate diets
Tim Harford and the More or Less team investigate the numbers behin the side-effects of the HPV vaccine, deaths of migrant workers in Qatar and look at the story behind the chocolate experiment designed to fool the press.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Seven-day NHS, John Nash and productivity
Tim Harford looks at a seven day-a-week NHS, 'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash, productivity and animal slaughter.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Female drink drivers, pub closures and The Rotterdam Effect
Tim Harford investigates the statistics behind female drink drivers, whether half our exports really go to Europe and the rate at which pubs in the UK are closing.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Strokes, teachers and electoral reform
Tim Harford investigates strokes, the plight of new teachers, overhauling the electoral system and how computers struggle with big numbers as much as we do!
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Live election edition
On the day after the election, Tim Harford hosts a live edition of More or Less.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Polls, nuns, life partners
More or Less looks at the supposed increase in catholic nuns, polling data and the best way to find a life partner.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Strenuous jogging, tuition fees and political seats
More or Less investigates whether strenuous jogging is bad for you, whether the tuition fees regime saved money and how many political seats are genuinely safe.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Conservative job creation, unhappy workers and due dates
More or Less puts the spotlight on Conservative job creation, dairy farmers, the UK's 'unhappiest' workers and the long-term pregnancy trends in developed countries.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Hate crimes, NHS reform and Manchester serial killer
More or Less puts the spotlight on the statistics around hate crimes, MP's supposed financial interest in the 2012 NHS reform and the Manchester 'canal' serial killer.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Mathematician and tutor, Katie Chicot, questions the role of "certainty" within the realm of statistical data. She interviews Carol Calvert on the issue, following her talk entitled 'Data – love the uncertainty'.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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An introduction to visualising development data
Tony Hirst and Hans Rosling introduce us to visualising development data and explore bar charts, line charts and scatter graphs.
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Level: 3 Advanced
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More confusing terms in statistics
Kevin McConway explains why statisticians use everyday words for not-so-everyday concepts - and how to translate what they really mean.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: The Joy Of Stats
Hans Rosling takes a journey into the heart of statistics - and shows why they're anything but dull.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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Postcode patterns
Learn to read and interpret social statistics by exploring Milton Keynes, home of The Open University.
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Level: 1 Introductory
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Diary of a data sleuth: When the data you don't collect affects the data you do
Is there anything sinister in the statistics which appears to show left-handed people die before their time?
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