The IKEA Enigma: What's Behind the Complexity Index? The world of flat pack furniture is confounding, where the thrill of assembly meets the terror of instructions gone awry. But what drives this existential dread?
Is it the cryptic manuals, the bewildering array of parts, or something more sinister? A website attempts to quantify chaos by assigning a numerical score to each product's assembly difficulty.
The site's methodology seems straightforward: multiply the number of steps in the manual by the number of individual parts. However, this formula is far from foolproof.