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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life

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

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03/02/2021

Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

Are teachers more at risk from Covid-19? There’s a new virus test in town. Does it work? Plus, are British butterflies on the road to extinction?

Prominent Labour politicians have claimed teachers are more likely to catch Covid-19, is that true? 

England’s Test and Trace programme has been widely criticised, has it raised its game in recent months? A ferocious row has broken out between scientists about how effective fast turnaround Lateral Flow tests are, and how they should be used. We examine the data. 

Plus, we examine a claim from Extinction Rebellion that British butterflies have declined by 50% since 1976.


(A Primary Academy teaches smaller pods of students to maintain social distancing measures, London UK. Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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