“… the medium [pizza] was more than twice as big as the small, and it cost only a little bit more. This sort of blew my mind.”
Earlier that day…
Reporter: “I just spent 2 weeks tabulating 74,476 data points from thousands of pizza joints around the country into SPSS and regression modeling it. Then I programmed an interactive chart with graphical modeling to visually demonstrate the magnitude of the price differentials.”
Editor: “Woah woah! Slow down there poindexter! I’ve got it! It’s the perfect angle for this pizza thingy of yours. You tell people you had no idea that smaller pizzas were worse values. Make it, like, a dramatic surprise!”
Reporter: “Won’t readers find it unbelievable that I don’t understand economics or arithmetic or geometry or incentives… or common sense?”
Editor: “Our readers don’t know all that Harvard crap! Anyway, now they can tweet about how stupid you are. Get it to me this afternoon!”
5 Responses to “74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza”
March 5
Alexei AndreevAll right, who’ll help me rationalize why ordering the small pizza is still the right decision?
March 5
Alexei AndreevHow about, my utility is linear in money, but logarithmic in the amount of pizza I eat at any one time? Does this justify my conclusion? 😛
March 5
Desiree D. DudleyIt’s STILL MORE MONEY AND BAD FATS AND POST-MODERN WHEAT over time. Unless you have peeps to share it with proportionately.
March 5
Peter ScheyerPost-Modern Wheat is the name of my Beck cover band.
March 5
Joshua Daniel Schulterleftover pizza encourages bad eating habits?