Thank you for downloading this week's more or less podcast.

Here's Tim Harford.

Hello and welcome to the last in the current series of more or less, sad news, but you

still have our undivided attention for another 1,650 seconds and what are 1,650 seconds

there'll be.

We'll be looking at sexual orientation, Irish bankers, the police and the perks of David

Cameron's job, just to be clear, those are separate items.

And we'll examine the micromort, a cheeky little unit of risk.

Every day, just by existing, you risk 30 micromorts, a 30 in a million chance of dying, just

by existing.

That's Matt Parker, who show at the Edinburgh Fringe was a raging success, which is exactly

what we'd expect of a show all about maths.

But first, according to the Office for National Statistics, we don't have very many gay listeners.

It's not that more or less has a particularly heterosexual following, it's that the UK in

general has fewer gay, lesbian and bisexual people living in it than we thought.

Also the story went last week, but loyal listener Millie Shaw, also the editor of Les

Beliches, which bills itself as the web's tastiest lesbian magazine, got in touch to ask.

The headlines in the press were all about how 1.5% of the population were gay or bisexual.

That seemed very low to us, because all the figures we'd seen previously, we either

10% from Kinsey or 5% to 7% from the government's own figures from a few years ago.

So some need to come to 1.5% seem very low figure.

So we're just wondering what the story behind it was.

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