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A factor of a hundred and forty seven

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Glass is two to three times plastic. Not a hundred and forty seven times.

Split the recorded weights by material and the pattern is obvious

The 55 glass rows run from 0.1288 to 2,002 pounds with a median of 7.9975. The 117 PET rows run from 0.02 to 28.83 with a median of 0.0544. The 77 polypropylene rows run from 0.01 to 21.01 with a median of 0.0456.

The glass median is a hundred and forty seven times the PET median

For containers covering the same capacity range on the same shelf. Glass is denser than PET and a glass wall is thicker, which puts the same vessel at roughly two to three times the mass. Not a hundred and forty seven.

So the unit of the column correlates with the material

Which is a supplier side pattern rather than a physical one. Materials do not determine whether a figure is per unit or per case; a data entry convention does.

The plastic halves of the column look internally consistent

A median of 0.0544 pounds is about 25 grams and 0.0456 is about 21. Both are credible single container weights for a small jar, which suggests the plastic rows are mostly recording one unit.

And the glass half mostly is not

A median of eight pounds cannot be one small glass jar. The 0.1288 row and a handful of others sit at plausible unit weights while most of the glass rows sit two orders of magnitude above them.

Both plastics also have rows that break the pattern

The PET maximum is 28.83 pounds and the polypropylene maximum is 21.01. So the convention is not even consistent within a material, which rules out correcting the column by a per material factor.

Exactly one row on this shelf exceeds fifty pounds

The 2,002 pound figure. Which means a filter that excluded implausible weights above fifty pounds would remove one row and pass every other affected one, because eight pounds is not obviously absurd.

That is the uncomfortable part and it is worth stating plainly

The worst row is the easy one to catch. The ones that cause harm are the rows that look reasonable and are a case weight, and no threshold separates those from a genuine unit weight.

Which is why the answer is not to repair the column

It is to stop using it. Four of the 253 rows record nothing at all, and a blank is a better state than a plausible wrong figure, because a blank cannot be mistaken for an answer.

And nothing on these pages depends on it

Every other figure quoted across this property comes from a field that states what it is: a capacity in milliliters, a height in inches, a case pack as a count, a price in cents.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 249 of this group’s 253 containers record a shipping weight. By material: 55 glass rows from 0.1288 to 2,002 pounds with a median of 7.9975; 117 PET rows from 0.02 to 28.83 with a median of 0.0544; 77 polypropylene rows from 0.01 to 21.01 with a median of 0.0456. The fifteen glass boston round rows read, by capacity and color: at 5 mL in a case of 765, amber 12.0669, blue 35.4200, clear 12.5669; at 10 mL in a case of 768, amber 11.5100, blue 44.0700, clear 10.9825; at 15 mL in a case of 468, two amber rows at 11.5437 and 11.6931, blue 33.0900 and clear 36.0000; at 30 mL in a case of 330, amber 33.0000, blue 35.0000, clear 35.0000; at 50 mL in a case of 264, amber 0.1288; and a 4 oz frosted row in a case of 72 at 20.0000. These figures are quoted as evidence that the column is not usable and not as facts about any container.
Written from 16 CFR part 300 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 300 implements the Wool Products Labeling Act and governs the fiber content and origin label on wool products; it does not govern needles, markers or swatch tags, and nothing here says it does. The shipping weights quoted on the containers pages are quoted as evidence that the column is not usable, and no weight on these pages is offered as a fact about any container. This shelf is the store-small-dry shelf plus three rows, and the sewing notions property enumerates the shared part of it.