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Hello and welcome to more or less. It's not the size of our data set that matters. It's what we do with it the counts.

This week, a Brazilian mathematical superstar as famous as the country's legendary footballers.

The death of the man that economist Milton Friedman called the greatest social scientist who's lived and worked in the last half century.

And some very unusual sporting activity.

Women did it, men did it, young men did it, old men did it, fat men did it.

Sometimes for a wager that someone would do it and say I can run two miles in X, Y, Z time while eating a chicken.

We'll be finding out about how the tools of statistical analysis are unearthing the forgotten history of running.

And maybe, just maybe, overturning a famous record.

But first, a topic that keeps hitting the headlines. One million brits now using food banks.

Numbers relying on food banks triple in a year.

And lots of you have been sending us emails about those headlines.

I'd be interested to hear some statistics on food banks.

One side of the argument is that this shows increasing poverty levels in the country.

The other is that more food banks exist, more people know about them, some more people use them.

What's the real story?

Increased use of food banks is often reported as an indicator of increased food poverty.

But can food bank statistics tell us anything about food poverty?

So where do these numbers come from and what do they mean?

Our reporter Laura Gray has been taking a look.

Well, let's start Laura with the headline that we just heard. Nearly a million people are now going to food banks. Is that true?

The figure comes from the Trustle Trust.

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