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Ladripper47874 t1_jd2ynbg wrote

Wait, you don't have something in every egg??

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inkoativ OP t1_jd2zi40 wrote

It's either "plastic junk" or a "cool" collectable figure, which is usually part of a figure series! Some of the figures are collector's items and can be quite valuable (see e.g. https://www.eierlei-shop.de/ (in German)).

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santimo87 t1_jd3b7ub wrote

I actually preferred the toys, like some figures were OK, some were boring and just collectible and you couldn´t play with those.

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DeathStarVet t1_jd34ne0 wrote

That's cool.

I just wish box and whisker plots were more intuitive. They look like the groups are the same, but they might not be? Is there a better way to visualize this?

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SFPigeon t1_jd37rjw wrote

Looks like heavier is more likely to contain a figure. Could do a simple line graph of the percentage with figure (y) against the weight (x).

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PhDPool t1_jd3iugg wrote

Oh yeah, sometimes you get stickers or a puzzle or some other crap. If it’s not a little car, you know I’ll be mad I didn’t get that figure of a gnome that “transforms” into a hedgehog by laying it down

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mr_capello t1_jd3qz21 wrote

would have needed that back in the golden days of surprise eggs

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marble-polecat t1_jd37hep wrote

Where was this exquisite graph when I was 6yo? Thanks, its great!

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underlander t1_jd44bdb wrote

something’s weird here. How can a kinder egg, which comes out of an automatic manufacturing facility, vary by up to 10g and still not have a toy inside? The median weight of the candy is about 32g, so how do you get +/-5g, a big difference for such a lightweight candy, so regularly if there’s not a toy inside?

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inkoativ OP t1_jd47qwx wrote

Not sure I fully understand the comment, but the content of the egg is either some kind of toy or a figure. So what varies is the content of the egg, not the chocolate. For some example pictures see https://mhoehle.github.io/blog/2016/12/23/surprise.html.

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underlander t1_jd492p4 wrote

so the chart’s kind of misleading. A reasonable person reading this (like me) would assume that “figure” is synonymous with “toy,” so we’re looking at whether or not the kinder egg had anything inside. But you’re saying what’s being measured here is whether it has something that you want, personally. So, that’s really confusing without an explanation

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inkoativ OP t1_jd49orh wrote

Thanks for the feedback and sorry, it could have been clearer that we distinguish between "figure" and "toy". I didn't know how to add any extra explanations to the image in Reddit. Thus the blog post contains further details.

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caroticum t1_jd4zr58 wrote

This guy is rich. As a kid I almost never bought Kinder eggs, too expensive.

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