on 4/5/2002 12:02 AM, Pat Naughtin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3 Traders > These are the folk to attack, and to attack with vigor. Traders deliberately > (and regularly) use old measures to dupe their customers. I don't doubt that some of the traders oppose metric becauae they want to "dupe" their customers, but I really don't think that is true for all the traders or even all the time for some of the traders (although I am sure it is true at least some of the time for at least some of the traders). I think traders fall into one of your other two catagories: they just don't like change (either fearing what it might bring or just not wanting to be bothered doing it).
I think there is also another catagory that you have left out: those who just don't give a damn. They could perhaps be classified under those who don't like change. Even if they have no real objection to change, however, if they don't care about a subject, they don't see any reason why we should make any effort to do ANYTHING about it. So they while the don't necessarily object to changing, it they don't even want to discuss it. They are not inclined to think about it, listen to or read about it, or learn about it generally. (That last one is perhaps most important.) If they ever learned about it, they might not resist the change to it. Regards, Bill Hooper college physics teacher (retired), USA (Florida) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Do It Easy, Do It Metric! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
