While I’m sharing charts…

[fbhjr]

I keep track of all sorts of data. I know, it often only matters to me.
But, I still keep it, so I will post some more of it here.

Today, I ate my 50th bag of plain M&Ms since I started tracking them more
than 2 years ago.

So, if you wonder what the color distribution in regular bags of plain M&Ms
is, this is it:


One of the things I did find strange was how much variation there was in
the number of M&Ms in a bag:

I expected 1 or 2, but instead there is a 12 M&M difference between the
maximum and the minimum.
I know they load by weight, but I suspect that bag with 49 something went
wrong in the factory.
That’s a 12% difference from average. Even if done by weight, there
weren’t any M&Ms in that bag 12% bigger than normal. I’d have noticed
that.
So, I suspect it is a QC failure and the bag should have been rejected as
underweight. But, they still got my money for it, so I guess it worked out
for them.

The plain is by far the ones I’ve had most often. 50 bags of them over 2
years. The most of any other kind is 16.

If you add up all the M&Ms I’ve had since I started tracking them it works
out to 6.96897546897547 per day.
That’s not too bad, right?

Comments

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Neat.

[meathiel]

*rofl*

You really like your charts, don't you?

I'm surprised that there are so many more blue ones than other colours. I'd have thought the colours are equally distributed!

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I was very surprised at how much blue there is in them. Maybe it is because it is their newest color?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Green, blue, and yellow are the colors of the candy characters in their commercials. I suppose that's why you get more of them.

Edit: Wait, no, I'm wrong. Red is a character as well, and brown is the "sexy" female one. So much for my theory!

[meathiel]

I have to admit I find blue food a bit strange! ;-)

[cosmicirony.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see such precision in candy consumption.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised by the variance of numbers of M&M's in a bag when it's the same weight ... I wonder if that pack of 49 was underweight?? It seems too bigger discrepancy.

7 M&M's a day - keeps the doctor away ;)

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I still mourn the light browns, which for some reason, as a kid, were my favorites.