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I have been wondering about some issues of 'scale sensitivity' with regard to metrication.
Some issues of scale sensitivity concern matters of accuracy and precision, yet some other issues seem to be influenced by matters of practice and convention.
Is convention (for example the use of customary units) a sort of default 'scale sensitivity'?
For example, More media organizations are featuring the use of metric units in programming. I wonder if there is a general perception that media programming is scale sensitive to the use of customary units. Some programming might be, but I wonder if so often that the use of customary units is arbitrary rather than because of a matter of scale sensitivity.
Because weather temperatures have been commonly reported in Fahrenheit in the US, is that reason in itself an issue of scale sensitivity to the use of the Fahrenheit scale in the US?
Or do these issues have less to do with scale sensitivity than with convention?
-- Ron
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