Sunday, December 11, 2011

Chart: M&M count by color

So experimenting with some data on M&M's based on 4 "random" (then again...what is random anyways) bags reveals astonishing facts. There seems to be a suspicious amount of orange ones.
Is there a reason for this? Perhaps orange dye is cheaper. Who knows...


Source: http://www.calvin.edu/~stob/data/mm.csv

Here's another interesting link on this subject which states that there's a clear discrepancy on this matter:
http://joshmadison.com/2007/12/02/mms-color-distribution-analysis/