Had a guy swear up and down that 2/3 is larger than 3/4. This was brought up because he was telling me he was teaching his son math. Guy was at least 45+.
A&W tried it in the 80’s and apparently more than half the people in the focus group thought the burger was smaller because 3 is less than 4. They renamed it the 3/9th burger so dumbass Americans wouldn’t feel like they were being ripped off. Americans have been leading the world in dumbassery for the decades at this point.
I’ve never heard of this. What? The average American doesn’t know how fractions work? This country never ceases to amaze me.
Had a guy swear up and down that 2/3 is larger than 3/4. This was brought up because he was telling me he was teaching his son math. Guy was at least 45+.
A&W tried it in the 80’s and apparently more than half the people in the focus group thought the burger was smaller because 3 is less than 4. They renamed it the 3/9th burger so dumbass Americans wouldn’t feel like they were being ripped off. Americans have been leading the world in dumbassery for the decades at this point.
if anything, 3/9 would be more confusing to me, cuz now I have to “calculate” how much that actually is, as opposed to knowing the amount by heart
In the early 1980s, the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.