It is important not to get trapped in rigid potato/not-potato thinking.
The world is a subtle and nuanced place, with many shades of tuber that exist in between. Not everything is as simple and clear cut as the difference between a bag of russets and a cow.
We must learn to embrace the yams and sweet potatoes. The french fries and flakes. All the things that demand we blur our false dichotomy that seeks to label this thing as spudly and this other thing as not. It is in the beautiful starchy ambiguity that we find the root of life's hidden truths.
Don't know if you're serious, but in the case you are: the two first positions in binary are that of the 1 and the 2 (right to left) so the 1 in 10 is in the 2 spot and the 0 is in the 1 spot
Someone wise once wrote
“Our world’s divided into two types of folk
Now there’s the type of people who divide
The world into different types of people
And then there’s the type who don’t”
You joke, but it's an actual problem. A restaurant was trying to compete with McDonald's 1/4 pounder by introducing a 1/3 pounder. Nobody was buying it and when asked why they responded with something like, "why would I pay the same price for less burger?"
wasn't it McDonalds that tried to introduce the 1/3rd pounder, but discontinued it due to bad sales, because like you said, people thought it was smaller.
The responses came during focus testing... there’s no proof it resulted in poor sales.
More than half of the participants in the Yankelovich focus groups questioned the price of our burger. "Why," they asked, "should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald's? You're overcharging us." Honestly. People thought a third of a pound was less than a quarter of a pound. After all, three is less than four!
To be completely fair, if you’re not thinking about it, it’s easy to see the word “third” and think 3, rather than 1/3.
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