M&m Probability Comparison

When you look at the dot plots for Original and Peanut M&Ms, you would notice that the Peanut dots tend to fall on the lower end of the lines. The blue is the best example. You can see that the blue Original dots fall on higher numbers MUCH more often. Also, take note that every single Original bag had a blue M&M in it and every single Peanut bag had a yellow in it. I found that to be interesting and it cannot be seen in any other table or graph.

Looking at the bar graphs, they clearly display the difference in the total number of candies. Once again looking at blue, you can see a humongous difference in the numbers that you see is not as evident in the segmented bar graphs and pie charts. One thing you may or may not notice is that even though blue, the biggest original number, shows a lack of them in Peanut bags. However yellow, which had the highest peanut number, is only slightly higher than the number of yellows in the original bags. Also, none of the other graphs show that the yellow numbers are THAT close.

Looking at the pie charts, you can see which colors are more dominant in original bags and which are more dominant in peanut bags. The wedge sizes, albeit in different colors, are very similar. In example, you can clearly see when they are side by side that on the original pie chart, the brown and yellow are both the lowest, where on the peanut graph brown and red are in the exact same boat. They are the lowest numbers (minus green which is almost completely gone from the peanut chart) and share the same wedge size and shape on the charts. The same is true for the blue and orange for plain and the yellow and ("surprisingly") orange.

Taking a look at the segmented bar graph now, we can more easily determine the difference in the percentages by seeing just how much of the whole is covered by its parts. When observing the side-by side graphs, it proves to be much easier to compare the percentages of the different types by their color. This can be determined by the pie charts, but it is much easier to compare the data and determine the colors as individual parts whereas the pie graph shows the data as a whole.