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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - January 24, 2024 09:30 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Was Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves wrong about the increase in the price of the weekly shop? What has the violence at sea done to the cost of shipping? Why did YouGov feel the need to correct an analysis of their polling? Are there 30 million GP appointments every month? And how does wind chill work?
Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Reporters: Charlotte McDonald and Nathan Gower
Producer: Debbie Richford
Series producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Mix: Rod Farquhar