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More Or Less

Numbers, statistics and figures guide our lives. More or Less considers where these figures come from, what they mean - and how they can shape our lives.
Catch the programme on BBC Radio 4 (Friday 1.30pm; Sunday 8.00pm); on iPlayer; by podcast - or dip into the archive.

Figures at work

Oil Refinery

They do more than sum up the profit and loss - discover the wide role played by numbers in business.

Uneconomical with the truth

Money and an accounts book

Dismissed as the "dismal science", perhaps, but what is economics?

Looking at chance

Lightning with risk superimposed

Comparing the numbers involved in calculated risks can be hard – we visualise probability compared.

 

Whose roof over your head?

A man holds a model of a house

You pay your mortgage, month-in, month out - but how much home do you own?

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