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tri sapphire posted...

To determine the most popular fast-food chain in each state, Foursquare looked at which chains received the most visits on average per location in every state based on the total number of visits to each chain divided by the number of locations in that state.

Basically, if there's only a small handful of locations that are consequently very busy because of that fact (or even just because of small numbers + busy locations in general), it's gonna get ranked high.

Very flawed way of reading the data.

Yeah, that's a pretty shitty methodology. Obviously chains with only a few locations that are popular due to being a novelty and having less competition will dominate, which seems to be the case for Chick-fil-a in all these northern states (I think there's like 5 of them total in WI).
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