More or Less: Behind the Stats - Nurses’ pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

How much do nurses in the UK earn compared with those elsewhere in Europe? Tim Harford and the team investigate. Also we have an update on ambulance response times, which were the worst on record in December but are showing signs of improvement. Should we use the word data in the singular or plural? The Financial Times has just changed its policy and Tim?s not happy. We look back at women who have made a key contribution to economics but have often been forgotten. And we hear how a spreadsheet error by the Office for National Statistics made the UK?s productivity appear to be one of the fastest improving in Europe.

60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “Torn”—Natalie Imbruglia

Rob looks back at his days in a band while diving into cover songs and Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” Later, he is joined by Sophie B. Hawkins to discuss her hit “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” as well as “Torn.”

Host: Rob Harvilla

Guest: Sophie B. Hawkins

Producers: Justin Sayles and Jonathan Kermah

Additional Production Support: Chloe Clark

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Spreadsheet disasters

The UK?s Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that?s just the most recent in a long list of times when spreadsheets have gone wrong, often with costly consequences

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes us through a short history of spreadsheet mistakes.