As behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman reported in his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the majority of students of Harvard, MIT and Princeton answered "10¢" - an answer that is intuitive, appealing, and wrong.
Kahelman explained this with an observation common to many trick questions: "many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions.
[3] Dennis M. Roberts carried out a study of what constitutes a trick question during an exam.
[5] An example that tests whether the question was read carefully: "When a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where are the survivors buried"?
[6] Other types of trick question contain a word that appears to be irrelevant, but in fact provides a clue.