MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Is it going to take 685 years to clear NHS waiting lists in England?
Are 10 per cent of MPs under investigation for sexual misconduct?
How does gold effect the UKs export figures?
What does it mean to say that a woman has 120% chance of getting pregnant?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Nathan Gower and Bethan Ashmead Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Sound mix: Neil Churchill Production coordinator: Brenda Brown Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:36.2 | Hello and welcome to more or less. |
| 0:38.6 | We're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life, |
| 0:41.6 | and I'm Tim Harford. |
| 0:43.0 | This week we're getting philosophical. |
| 0:47.0 | What do all these numbers mean? |
| 0:52.0 | What does it mean to say that a woman has a 120% chance of getting pregnant? |
| 0:57.0 | What does it mean to say that it will take 685 years to clear NHS waiting lists. |
| 1:04.1 | And what does it mean to say that 10% of MPs are under investigation for rape or sexual |
| 1:09.7 | misconduct? |
| 1:10.7 | And once we've asked what it means, we can also figure out that none of those things are true. |
| 1:16.2 | Which, well, maybe it's not so philosophical after all. |
| 1:19.4 | Welcome anyway. Last week, the House of Commerce Anyway. |
| 1:28.0 | Last week, the House of Commons voted on proposals to ban from the parliamentary estate, members of parliament who've been arrested for violent or sexual offences. |
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