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Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
24 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double mastectomy, Tim Harford assesses the probabilities associated with the disease. Plus, has the UK been hit by a Romanian crime wave? Also in the programme: Education Secretary Michael Gove’s use of PR surveys; and why the UK’s poor growth has not had led to the high levels of unemployment that economists would expect.
Released:
May 17, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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