Since Steve claims to be pro-choice, I would think he would have made an
effort to have the mistake corrected so that potential metric customers
would understand the numbers instead of gloating over the error.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 2005-07-11 12:53
Subject: [USMA:33505] RE: July 4
When I sold my last house the estate agent brochure described my living
room as :-
"23ft, 3in long (30 m)"
No-one questioned the fact that if I had a 30 metre long living room I
would have made a lot more money on it! Not one person mentioned the
mistake however my brochure would have gone out to hundreds of potential
customers (the succesful ones being a young couple). The reason why the
issue was not raised at al,l I believe, is obvious.
I would say it's inconclusive. It's doubtful that hundreds of potential
customers would have studied the detail and given any thought. They would
have been bombarded by all the property brochures on the market at that
time and likely as not just skimmed through it.
There is also the consideration as to whether anyone was likely to mention
it given the obvious mistake. If they were metric savvy they could just as
easily do the conversion themselves and ignore the published one as it was
quite plainly a conversion error with the metric figure being wrong.
Phil Hall
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