Comments on: Hamburger Size

By: Somedude

Somedude — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:59:36 +0000

Actually the units are right. These are called normalized units. If you take the size of a real life burger to be normalized to 1 unit, the burger shown in the commercial is two units; Hence twice the size.

It is common in science.

By: Disser

Disser — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:27:52 +0000

And also, what would happened if you ordered a size “0″ hamburger? Would they come back with an empty plate? HUH?

By: linin

linin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:35:34 +0000

How can a hamburger have a size rating of 2 or 1.5.
“Yes, i ordered a .5 hamburger, not a 3.”
This is lame. Sorry.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:07:09 +0000

What about “In the picture”? You can’t forget that; EVERYTHING looks so much better in the picture.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:13:55 +0000

What about McDonald’s?
The Big Mac is a lot smaller than you would think.

By: faunablues

faunablues — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:25:49 +0000

my guess is the idea behind the measurements on the Y axis is the size of the item relative to the real life hamburger… though it would make more sense for it to be in percentages, and for the author to designate that.
If the author couldn’t figure out how to do a bar graph with less than three bars, couldn’t s/he have just had a third measurement that had a hamburger size of zero? Like a singularity hamburger, a ham sandwich, or some other nerdy joke?

By: mellenmack

mellenmack — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:08:14 +0000

i thought it was quite commerical…i mean comical…

By: david henderson

david henderson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:05:17 +0000

does no one see the spelling fail??

By: The L

The L — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:04:24 +0000

Indeed. It would have been so much better if they’d just left off the units on the Y-axis.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:13:02 +0000

glad that bothered someone else besides just me

By: jack mehoff

jack mehoff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:43:25 +0000

INVISIBLE CHEEZBURGER

By: fubuki

fubuki — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:39:32 +0000

We can only guess as to where the invisible third data point falls on this hamburger scale.

By: demain

demain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:26:05 +0000

Wow…what are the numbers on the vertical axis supposed to represent? FAIL.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:16:32 +0000

I laugh at your fail.

By: Best Ever

Best Ever — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:51 +0000

Worst offender: Hardee’s

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:48:26 +0000

I love this TIC answer to show just how STUPID this graph is.

By: jack mehoff

jack mehoff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:47:34 +0000

mmm… hamburger pie…

and wtf is a size 2 hamburger? and if I went into some place and ordered a size 2 hamburger and they came back with a size 1 hamburger, I’d be like, “hey! I ordered the size 2 hamburger. This is a size 1 hamburger. That’s like half of a size 2 burger. Now go and get me a size two burger before I kick you in the nuts.”

totally.

By: fubuki

fubuki — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:52:40 +0000

At least give us a hamburger-as-pie chart or something.

By: Moose

Moose — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:41:33 +0000

agreed. Bottom of the barrel…

By: mellenmack

mellenmack — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:36:58 +0000

graph fail and i won’t even go into why.

how many graphs were submitted and this is the best we got??!!