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🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
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0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on BBC World Service. |
0:43.2 | We're your statistical guide to the world all around us and I'm Tim Harford. |
0:49.2 | Mona Chalaby is many things. |
0:51.5 | The British data editor of the Guardian US, a chartmaker with tens of thousands |
0:56.4 | of followers on Instagram and Twitter, and self-described Queen of too much information. |
1:02.4 | Her hand-drawn charts illustrate everything from average female |
1:06.0 | hairiness to the impact of affirmative action, and they show that when it comes to stats, she's |
1:11.8 | interested in almost anything. |
1:14.6 | For example a while ago she became obsessed with the idea that she had a low masculine sounding |
1:19.3 | voice and decided to look up the data. |
1:22.2 | Turns out that impression was just in her head, |
1:24.8 | but it did lead her down a research path |
1:27.4 | which resulted in this audio graph. |
1:30.3 | This is Tom. |
1:35.0 | This is an audio chart. During puberty, boys testicles get bigger, |
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