Hay Festival Special
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | Hello and welcome to this special episode of More or Less, |
| 0:10.2 | recorded in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival in Hail and Why Wales. |
| 0:14.5 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:18.8 | Yes, Wales are country we love because it is literally the size of Wales. |
| 0:24.8 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:25.8 | We are the show that takes the numb out of numbers and the tatt out of statistics |
| 0:30.4 | and which puts several hundred loyal listeners into a tent. |
| 0:34.2 | And here they are with me, I should just ask our listeners, |
| 0:36.4 | and who here is loyal? Shout out if you're loyal. |
| 0:39.4 | Yes! |
| 0:41.6 | Shout out if you're disloyal. |
| 0:43.1 | Yes! |
| 0:44.6 | OK. |
| 0:45.6 | Over on the left, you've got my eye on you guys. |
| 0:47.8 | OK. Now, this week, we talk about how to ace a multiple-choice question |
| 0:52.2 | armed with the insights of the world's leading expert on incompetence |
| 0:56.4 | and the country's favourite statistician, David Spiegelhalter, |
| 0:59.1 | will tell us a detective story. |
| 1:00.9 | But first, I'd like to invite onto the stage to join me |
| 1:04.2 | longtime More or Less reporter, presenter and producer Ruth Alexander. |
| 1:08.5 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
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