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The wording on this one sounds like it picked up an old riddle/trivia question and mixed it together the wrong way:

What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

The trick answer is that the pound of feathers weighs more, because gold is (was) measured in a system where 1 pound = 12 ounces, while feathers would be weighed using the modern system where 1 pound = 16 ounces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight




Yes, this is overfitting caused by dataset bias. People don't ever say "What weighs more, a pound of feathers or two pounds of feathers?" So it just ignores the numbers.


This is why SI units are superior. Less opportunity to deceive.




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