How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models

Re:How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models by jml7c5 on Saturday August 10, 2019 @11:45PM (#20666107)

Density also matters, or you could cheat and sell a roll of paper "fluff".

Also, many people fold rather than wad.

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Re:How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models by majewsky on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:55AM (#20673683)

> Also, many people fold rather than wad.

This. Mass is just a nonsense unit for me as a folder. You might as well be advertising density or albedo. If anything, I'd want the base unit to be

  number of sheets * number of layers per sheet

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Re:How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models by spacehome on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:26AM (#20666409)

You could multiply all of those together to get mass.

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Re:How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models by artwr on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:05AM (#20666990)

Cue the heavy cardboard rolls in the middle.

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