UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How many people have UN staff raped? – (0’40’’) It was reported in a number of the newspapers this week that UN staff are responsible for 60,000 rapes in a decade.
The wealth of Mr Darcy – (5’10”) The male love interest of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is supposed to be fabulously wealthy. Is he?
How many people did Stalin kill? – (10’00”) Why there are so many different figures reported.
Avoid splitting the bill – (18’25”) Credit card roulette is Dan Ariely’s preferred way of ending a meal with friends.
Gender in literature – (22’15”)How are women depicted in books? Author Ben Blatt does an analysis.
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| 0:41.0 | We previously put out a longer piece about Mr Darcy's wealth on the 26th of November |
| 0:46.0 | last year. Here's Tim Harford. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to the last in this series of more or less your ever faithful guide to the numbers all around us in the news and in life. |
| 0:58.6 | This week the crimes of Stalin, the money bags of Mr Darcy, and the thing that male authors say female characters |
| 1:07.0 | are constantly doing. |
| 1:08.0 | Shivered, wept, murmured, screamed, and married. |
| 1:13.6 | But first, in recent days the conduct of aid workers around the world has been under scrutiny. |
| 1:19.0 | It began with the news that Oxfam workers in Haiti paid for sex while on a mission to help those affected by the 2010 earthquake. |
| 1:27.0 | Since then, journalists have been asking what else has been happening in the aid industry |
| 1:31.6 | and the news has been full of stories about the |
| 1:33.4 | misconduct of international aid organizations. Just a few days ago many newspapers |
| 1:38.7 | reported... UN staff responsible for 60,000 rapes in a decade. |
| 1:45.0 | It's an appalling number, but we wanted to know where it came from. |
| 1:49.0 | Well, Kate Lamble has been looking into it. |
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