More or Less: Behind the Stats

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 9m. Bisher sind 928 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 20 hours 58 minutes

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