Summary: Bubbles should face inward.

Article lacks evidence to support its titular claim that most instances of bubble-wrapping, or most bubble-wrapping wrappers, face the bubbles outward.

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palmotea 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Article lacks evidence to support its titular claim that most instances of bubble-wrapping, or most bubble-wrapping wrappers, face the bubbles outward.

Reason says the bubbles should go on the inside:

There are gaps between the bubbles. If they're on the outside, something can impact the item in a gap and bypass the padding. If the bubbles are on the inside, they become supports for the flat side (which, IIRC, is usually heavier plastic), so if there's an impact on a gap, there's still padding because the plastic is being held away from the item and the force is transferred to the surrounding bubbles.

	▲	treetalker 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. My point was that there is no evidence that most people do it wrong, as the title suggests.

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pseudohadamard 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yup. It's obvious they go on the inside, so how many people are actually putting them on the outside apart from imaginary ones used to justify a clickbait post?