Hannah Barnes
speaker
509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
Hannah Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More or Less was presented by Tim Harford, the Financial Times' undercover economist.
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It was produced by Ruth Alexander and made in association with The Open University.
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You can download many more Radio 4 programmes for free.
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Find these at bbc.co.uk slash radio4.
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Ash dieback.
100,000 trees fell to combat killer fungus.
For each species, it has a front page with some headline statistics.
For instance, maximum age, which for cod is given as 25.
But when you delve into where those statistics come from, it's all very well referenced in fish base.
And you can actually find that the estimate of 25 was not from a North Sea cod.
It was from a cod in the Barents Sea.
And the only estimate for a North Sea cod of maximum age is 11.
Well, let's start with the headline, 100 cod left in the North Sea from the Daily Telegraph.
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Could it possibly be true?
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That's Dr Tom Webb, a leading marine ecologist.
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It turns out that The Telegraph took the story from another British paper, The Sunday Times, which claimed that there are 100 adult cod in the North Sea.
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A different claim, but still wildly wrong.
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Here's what happened.
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The Sunday Times got the story by looking at data from ISIS, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
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And it then asked researchers from the British government's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, or CFAS, for help with the numbers.
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