Pierre, Just wondering what RFT is (that you mention in your e-mail below).
Thanks, Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:04 PM Subject: [USMA:38700] Re: Is U.S. metrication still considered "extreme?" > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:31, STANLEY DOORE wrote: > > Paul, you have identified a critical area of discontinuity where the > > medical industry uses the SI for medicine and people use English units to > > describe their weight. (mass). > > > > This is an area needs to be resolved now. It would help people to > > understand metric and reduce their fear of it when they give their > > dimensions (height and weight) in SI. This would be a major advance in > > adopting the SI. > > Last year I told my doctor my height and mass in metric. He asked me what they > are in other units. As he practices Chinese medicine, and I don't know > Chinese units, I was stumped ;) > > Most of the people I hang around with on RFT quote their mass in pounds. A few > quote kilograms. How can we get people to weigh themselves in kilograms? > > Btw, I had an opportunity to explain one of the more obscure SI units, the > gray. Someone was worried that an airport X-ray machine would irradiate seeds > or probiotic capsules. > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 15:08, Remek Kocz wrote: > > One particular area where it would be extremely easy is with body > > temperature. It's a number that really exists in isolation--no one relates > > it to outdoor temperature or anything else for that matter. Weight and > > height are another issue, much more difficult to convince the general > > public to adopt, but in the name of reducing medical errors, it could be > > done. > > I do relate body temperature to outdoor temperature. I know that if the > outdoor temperature is 37 or more, I must drink a lot of water to keep myself > between 36.0 and 36.8. > > Pierre >
