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Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim Harford finds out in this week's More or Less. The team also investigate whether Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (or HSMRs) - expected ...deaths to observed deaths - can be unhelpful, ask who stands to lose from the scrapping of Child Trust Funds and remember the great mathematician, Martin Gardner.
Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim Harford finds out in this week's More or Less. The team also investigate whether Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (or HSMRs) - expected ...deaths to observed deaths - can be unhelpful, ask who stands to lose from the scrapping of Child Trust Funds and remember the great mathematician, Martin Gardner.
| Series: | More or less |
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| Episode | 2 |
| First transmission date: | 2010-05-28 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 4 |
| Published: | 2010 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:27:17 |
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| Producer: | Richard, Knight |
| Presenter: | Tim Harford |
| Contributors: | Ruth Alexander; Alex Bellos; Derek Gatherer; Richard Hamblin; Tim Harford; Catherine Hendy; Brian Jarman; Paul Lewis; Richard Lilford; Charlotte Pritchard; David Spiegelhalter |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Economics; Mathematics; Statistics |
| Production number: | PLN02110VE20221 |
| Available to public: | no |
