On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:08, Jason Darfus wrote: > In response to my letters to local TV stations for National Metric > Week, I have gotten one response so far. He thinks most people don't > want the change to metric, so he did a poll of those around him. > According to him, the poll verified his suspicions. > > I don't know how his question was posed so it's hard to say if it was > biased or not.
I think that the poll should ask whether we should continue using a mixture of units or go entirely metric. We can't go entirely English because there are no English units for electricity, the rest of the world has gone metric, and some industries (film, cigarettes) were metric before I was born and aren't going back. If you ask whether weather temperatures should be reported in Celsius, you will probably get a "yes" only from immigrants, their children, scientists, and overseas travelers. But if you add that temperatures are already reported in Celsius to the weather service, and that immigrants come here knowing only Celsius, you may get more people agreeing. (The scientists may think of the temperature as 301 kelvins, confusing the rest of us.) phma
