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The death toll in Syria

The death toll in Syria

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


The death toll in Syria

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Sep 9, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As global leaders remain divided on whether to carry out a military strike against Syria in response to the apparent use of chemical weapons against its people, Tim Harford looks at the different claims made about how many people have been killed. And, apparently, it's a fact that if there's one thing that's worse for you than drinking, scoffing bacon sandwiches and smoking 80 unfiltered cigarettes a day, it's being left-handed. Left-handers die on average several years earlier than right-handers. Or do they? Tim gets to the bottom of a sinister statistic. This edition was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Released:
Sep 9, 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