My friend Rachel and I have a theory. We truly believe that there is a significant difference in the taste and quality of M&Ms that are from the small individual serving bags (and fun size bags) versus the M&Ms in the large shareable bags.  We believe that the large bags of M&Ms taste better. We've talked about it several times (we have a great relationship where we can talk about the truly important things in life) and I didn't know if it was really true or if it was just psychological. Like maybe the big bags of M&Ms taste better because there's more in them and I don't feel as bad eating them because I don't actually know how much I've eaten. Whereas when you eat the individual servings bags you know exactly how much you've eaten and feel bad that you've downed 230 calories in, oh, 9.8 seconds flat. 
Why do M&Ms from the big bags taste so much better than the M&Ms from the small bags?
I decided that I needed to set up an experiment. I needed to find out for sure if the big bags of M&Ms actually taste better. So I did what any normal person would do and headed to the store. I bought one (12.6 oz) large bag of M&Ms and five (1.69 oz) small bags of M&Ms.  I took out two cereal bowls and labeled one #1 and the other #2. Then I had my daughter pour an even amount of M&Ms from the small bags and the large bag into each bowl. She then wrote down which bowl had the small bag M&MS and which bowl had the large bag M&Ms. She then hid the paper so I wouldn't know which M&Ms were in which bowl.  I wanted to be in no way influenced and I wanted to do a double blind study (hello college statistics FINALLY coming into play in real life).
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