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Getting Creative with Statistics

How big are your testicles and what does that mean? Data journalist and self-confessed ‘Queen of too much information’ Mona Chalabi talks to Tim Harford about her unusual approach to representing statistics.

Image: Testicles-like root of the green-winged orchid (Orchis morio) Shutterstock.

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9 minutes

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Tue 31 Jul 201801:50GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet

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  • Sun 29 Jul 201818:50GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
  • Mon 30 Jul 201812:50GMT
    BBC World Service except News Internet
  • Tue 31 Jul 201801:50GMT
    BBC World Service except News Internet

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