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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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More or Less: Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability

07/10/2020

Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability

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Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.

After nearly 16,000 cases disappeared off coronaviruses spreadsheets, we ask what went wrong. How common are lasting symptoms from Covid-19? If you survey people about the death toll from Covid, they’ll make mistakes. What do those mistakes teach us? Pedants versus poets on the subject of exponential growth. And we dive deep into the unholy marriage of mathematicians, gamblers, and actuaries at the dawn of modern finance.

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