u/zonination's "Got ticked off about skittles posts, so I decided to make a proper analysis for /r/dataisbeautiful [OC]"
The subreddit s/dataisbeautiful was inundated by folks creating color distributions for bags of candy. And because 1) it is Reddit and 2) stats nerds take joy in silly things, candy graphing got out of hand. See below: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5bojxl/oc_the_data_suggests_that_certain_colors_are_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5bmo3a/color_distribution_of_one_more_partysized_bag_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5cmemr/a_pie_chart_of_mm_colors_from_a_single_500g_bag_oc/ And because it is Reddit, and, to be a fair, statistically unreliable, other posters would claim that this data WASN'T beautiful because it was a small sample size and didn't generalize. One bag of Skittles, they claimed. didn't tell you a lot about the underlying population of Skittles. Until Redditor zonination came along, bought 35 enormous bags of Skittles, and meticulously documented the color distribution in each ...