Ezra, the counter-rejoinder to your colleague is that there are no
"American" units! What we use for units in the U.S. are based upon the
metric system. Show him http://www.metric.org/laws/mendenhall.html
Paul
Paul Trusten, R.Ph. , Vice President
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
trus...@grandecom.net
+1(432)528-8824
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From: <mech...@illinois.edu>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: 09 February, 2011 10:30
Subject: [USMA:49826] Re: STEM metric foundation in America Proposal
Ezra,
Is now the time to switch from Google to Firefox to avoid that single
(isolated, unique, I hope) backward-minded advocate of "American" units in
your organization? Place a copy of NIST SP 811 at his work station and
see if he deserves to remain your friend? Is he really from the top 1/100
of 1%?
Gene.
---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:35:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: ezra.steinb...@comcast.net
Subject: [USMA:49823] Re: STEM metric foundation in America Proposal
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
...
people
uncomfortable with measurement or arithmetic and who
may also have an anti-metric bias as well (think UK
or USA).
A small anecdote about that bias here where I live
....
The company I work for hires the top 1/100th of 1%
of highly analytical and numerate people as software
engineers. Imagine my chagrin when I heard one of
these fellow (whom I know) talking to one of our
colleagues from one of our European offices convert
the latter's use of metric to US Customary. When the
European fellow protested a bit, my American
colleague gave him what I'm sure he considered an
unassailable rejoinder:
"Hey, I'm an American ... I use American units!"
:-(
Cheers,
Ezra
...
