Tim Harford and the More or Less team investigate numbers in the news. Numbers are used in every area of public debate. But are they always reliable? More or Less tries to make sense of the statistics which surround us. A half-hour programme broadcast at 1330 on Friday afternoons and repeated at 2000 on Sundays on Radio 4. Fri, 8 Jan 10 Duration: Tim Harford asks: would targetted passenger profiling improve airport security, can growth go on forever, and what are the true costs of alcohol misuse to the NHS in England?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
More Or Less: 08 Jan 10
28 mins
Friday, 8 January 2010
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