Hello again, this is Who Told You That, with me Wanjiru Maina and the ever patient Kevin. This week we are doing numbers, and I promise it will not hurt. A headline said that a certain type of crime had doubled in a year, and by Thursday it was being quoted on television as though it were a fact everyone had checked. I went and found the report it came from. It is public, it is 40 pages, and the number in question went from two incidents to four. Two to four is technically doubling. It is not a crime wave. So today we talk about denominators, about how percentages hide small numbers, and about the one question that will protect you from most bad statistics: what is this a share of? You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.