Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
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Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
As food prices soar, we fact check how they compare with neighbouring nations
Tim Harford looks at how inflation is calculated and what is really means when it changes
More or Less asks whether this widely circulated figure is accurate.
Tim Harford looks at the stark numbers for ambulance waiting times in England
