Angela Saini

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More or Less · Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS) · 6 Jul 2012 podcast

Hello.

For the next 10 minutes, you're with more or less a dollop of statistical cream on the overripe strawberry of news.

I'm Angela Saini.

First up, more or less listener Dave Hurley was reading The Economist recently when he came across this surprising fact.

Palau is a tiny Micronesian island home to just 21,000 people.

But despite its size, this wasn't the first time David heard about it.

Now, as Dave continues, this begs an important question.

Time to bring in our intrepid reporter.

Although there are nearly 200 states in the study, which means that 42nd place is still pretty high.

Now, purely because I suspect some listeners will be wondering which country is at the top of the list for all alcohol consumption.

So not only are more people in Palau than anywhere else smoking cannabis, but they're ahead by a long, long way.

Exactly.

Now, to me, that sounds like somewhere an error could quite easily creep in.

I mean, you would expect teenagers to smoke more dope than, say, middle-aged women.

So what do Palauans think about that statistic that a quarter of the adult population has used cannabis?

Well, I put these points to Angela May, a UN statistician who worked on the recent drugs report.

Angela May from the UN.

Now from small islands to small particles, and they don't get much smaller than the Higgs boson.

Scientists running the world's largest particle accelerator at CERN this week were boggling us with numbers many of us didn't understand, but which apparently meant they had made a landmark discovery that would forever change physics and explain the mass of the universe.

This is the level at which you have to... It's no doubt a big week for science, but what exactly do researchers mean when they talk about a five sigma result?

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