Is there any proof that they would understand the amounts if given in non-metric?
You can tell most people almost anything in non-metric and they would believe it to be true because they have no idea if it is right or wrong. They are just happy to hear a non-metric word. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 2007-03-07 10:57 Subject: [USMA:38090] Re: Anti-metric bias in schools > To give them a frame of reference, you could say "I'm 63 kg, so I would take > 1.26 grams" (or whatever the numbers are). > > I suggest you complain to the professor's boss about her. Anyone who does not > know his body mass in kilograms (if he knows it at all) or the number of > milligrams in a kilogram is seriously behind the times. I was 36 kg sometime > in the 70s and I have never known my weight in any other unit. > > phma > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/712 - Release Date: 3/6/2007 3:42 > PM ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091
