More or Less: Behind the Stats   /     When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

Description

Can we teach BBC political editor Chris Mason some new maths skills? Do 60 of the UK’s richest people pay 100% tax? Have water bills fallen in real terms since 2010? When it comes to HPV and cervical cancer, is zero a small number?Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Nathan Gower and Bethan Ashmead Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Sarah Hockley Editor: Richard Vadon

Subtitle
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
Duration
1723
Publishing date
2024-10-16 08:30
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jy0n43
Contributors
  BBC Radio 4
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