How Lucky is a Bowl of Lucky Charms?

tl;dr version: A team of students helped design and carry out an experiment to determine whether bowls of Lucky Charms are equally “lucky” over the course of a box of cereal. Turns out, not so much. We estimate a decrease of approximately 2.7 total charms per additional bowl on average. This corresponds to more than a 50% drop-off in charms from the first bowl to the last. The weight of cereal also appears to play a role, and for each …

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