Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Beyond the blackboard (10 Sep 2003) Simon Mills, a teacher at Teyfant Community School in Hartcliffe, likes orange Smarties but often gets the feeling that there are fewer orange ones. He put this to the test with his Year 4 class. The children tested the colour variation in 29 tubes of Smarties and used Excel to analyse the results. They then used Publisher to display their work and e-mailed Nestlé with their results. Unfortunately, and perhaps rather short-sightedly, the company did not take advantage of this original research and only sent a fact sheet back, so the mystery of the scarce orange Smartie endures. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art03.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Chic gear to suit net generation     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy