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Thank you for downloading more or less from BBC Radio 4. Here's Tim Harford.

Hello and welcome to more or less, the programme which reveals the secrets behind the

numbers in the news and in life.

This week, the Triumph of Countdown and the Curse of Strictly Come Dancing.

But first, we bring this programme to you amid a flurry of Scottish referendum poll results.

Yes Leeds in Scots Poll Shock.

The Sunday Times headline last weekend,

as it published an internet opinion poll conducted by UGov,

which showed the Yes campaign was ahead for the first time,

by 51% to 49% when the don't knows were excluded.

There was pandemonium in the media, a sharp reaction on financial markets and the leaders of the three big Westminster parties

each of which supports the continuation of the United Kingdom, cancelled Prime Minister's questions and dashed to Scotland in an attempt

to shore up the Better Together campaign.

But then three days later...

Hello Ruth.

Hi Tim.

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