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FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? It is regularly reported that it is 17 years but is this true?



Floppy Disks



This week’s shocking revelation of the computer world was that the Department of Defence still uses 1970s floppy disks to coordinate its nuclear weapons systems. But can it possibly be true that you could fit more than three million of them on a single ten dollar USB drive?



Producer: Laura Gray

Presenter: Ruth Alexander
Released:
May 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4