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
> 
> 
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