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28/05/2010
Tim Harford and the team explain numbers in the news, look out for misused statistics and use maths to explore the world around us.
Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim Harford finds out in this week's More or Less. The team also investigate whether Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (or HSMRs) - expected deaths to observed deaths - can be unhelpful, ask who stands to lose from the scrapping of Child Trust Funds and remember the great mathematician, Martin Gardner.
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Sun 30 May 201020:00
BBC Radio 4
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- Fri 28 May 201013:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sun 30 May 201020:00BBC Radio 4
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