[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > > BTW: here in the US they also like to measure things in fractions, and body > part lengths for some unexplainable reason... Reasons I do hear are that SI > is too "difficult" for the average Joe to comprehend, and replacing road > signs > costs too much. > > Gotta get my 5/32 Fluid Ounce, 3-7/16 Inch Latte now :) > Said
Since the average person in the rest of the world copes with the metric system without any difficulty, the first reason would appear to be based on a tacit assumption that average US citizen is less intelligent/less well educated than the average citizen of every other country. This seems a somewhat arrogant/paternalistic assumption unless the US in someway selects for low IQ and/or the US education system is significantly less effective than the educaton systems of every other country. The second reason is somewhat spurious, other countries have converted from the imperial to the metric system without major difficulty or expense. It wasn't even necessary to change all road signs overnight. Bruce _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
