Carl Sorenson wrote in USMA 24111: | The problem would not be miscomprehension, but a total lack of | comprehension. If a newspaper article had the quantity 10 Mg, the vast | majority of the public (at least in the U.S., and probably most places) | would either have no idea what it meant or they would think it was saying 10 | milligrams.
You can blame this on your leaders of education. I personally think it's an absolute crime to deny schoolchildren basic common knowledge of the SI system in this day and age. No different from the Taliban banning anything western to be shown, worn or even discussed in their own country. That's how we see the US from outside the US. When I was a kid, even though there was no talk of converting to SI, I was still taught that the small letter was used for units smaller than the base unit and the capital letter used for those larger than the base unit. To learn that this was deliberately never taught in US schools is the worst form of disinformation one can ever imagine. Definitely NO points awarded to the US Secretary of Education, or to the states' version of this very important position. Mike
