You make a great point here, Pierre: NPR could just as easily stated
the totals in liters, and should have done so, especially since, for
Americans today,it is easier to visualize the size of the amount in a
number of two-liter bottles (a million liters would be 500,000 2 L
bottles).
Paul
Paul Trusten
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:45, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote:
NPR's Morning Edition just aired a story about obesity, read the
fluid ounce
figure from a liter bottle, and stated a statistic about the
consumption of
soda in gallons. Since soda has been sold in two-liter bottles for
almost as
long as I can remember, how can they expect Americans, even those
who don't
know their own height in meters, to understand gallons of soda?
Pierre
