Evanomics on the metric system
I know that my mental arithmetic has got a little better since moving to a country that still uses miles and feet to measure distance: “As it happens, I think the real reason we don’t change is not that we dislike the fact the French invented it, nor that we have a tendency to behave like the French in facing globalisation. It is that in any given year, heaving ourselves through the transition to metrication is a difficult process.” — Evan Davis, The metric system
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i think the reason the USA has not converted is because we cannot relate to metric units easily. Using metric is easy enough, but visualizing metric dimensions is more difficult. Most of us can visualize an inch, foot, etc, but would not know how much a centimeter, meter or kilometer is.
And I am the very opposite! (o:
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