User blog comment:BonesMcGee/Brainstorm: Potential savings in using the hurry hatch trick/@comment-5116140-20120821192825/@comment-5116140-20120821224629

Indeed it is.

There are 2089 eggs in total in the Spinning Dino Egg Drum. Most tier 3 dinos have only 1 egg in the drum, except the sloth which has 6. That means you are 6 times as likely to get a sloth as any of the other tier 3 dinos. This will Skew your data terribly.

Let's make this personal. Most people don't understand dino eggs, but they sure know when they have been short-changed.

S'pose I borrow 6 dollars from you today and promise to pay you back.

I place the 6 dollars in my third pocket. (tier 3)

The next day, I run into you on the street. You want your money back. No problem.

I reach into my 1st pocket (tier 1) and hand you the one dollar I happen to have there. [same as 1 egg]

Does that sound fair? I borrowed dollars [eggs] not pocket numbers [tiers]

See how the numbers got terribly skewed.

This same problem is going on if you only record tiers instead of EggCount, which is the same as the "probability value" in the list of dinos here.

Hope this helps. Would hate to see you do a lot of work only to come up short, in the later analysis. In this case about $5 short! [5 eggs short for the sloth]

This is important because the six sloth eggs are more than all the other tier 3 eggs combined!