This is what the world needs.
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“As they say they look at the numbers all around us. One often asked question is “is this a big number?” It’s always when a number sounds big but on large scales sometimes it’s actually not a big number. Many people don’t have have a good grasp of scale, as numbers get big they are hard to visualize if your not used to thinking this way. Another question often asked is where did this number come from? They do an exceptional job of fact checking, sometimes the numbers sound unbelievable but are in fact true but other times the trail leads to a single questionable source. With so much false or at least ambiguous information that no one can take the time to check every source we really need More or Less or similar coverage for everything at least until we pass through this beginning of the Information Age and get a firmer grasp of what we are doing with the internet. It’s like the Victorian age for industry, lots of good things came out of it eventually but they had so many things wrong at the time.”
clwoodshop via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/17/23
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“It is already one of the first podcasts that I choose to listen to. Taking a sideways view of the stories we hear reported in the news, in the first programme Tim Harford helps us to understand how the class nerd now makes lots of money from just one maths formula and also gets the girls and how...”Read full review »
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Great Britain ·
11/14/07
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“Unpicks the numbers behind the headline grabbing stats. Love it.”
RuthAE via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/28/15
“Lusten to a couple of these & you'll be amazed just how many statistics considered gospel are so far off the mark!”Read full review »
Spoo99 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
01/19/14
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