Oops, make that "forgotten about what you saw." --- On Mon, 8/13/12, John M. Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
From: John M. Steele <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [USMA:51846] NPR article To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Monday, August 13, 2012, 6:44 AM Well, the author is dead wrong. USATF and NCAA already present field events to the audience in converted feet and inches. NBC did the same for the Olympics. AP always reports that way. It is still unpopular. All the author did was to prove that he is innumerate, hates the metric system, and can't research his story or fact-check. You have to go out of your way to find the athlete's REAL performance (metric) from a foreign news source or the official results page. By then,. you've forgotten about what you say. Maybe it is unpopular because they lie to us in feet and inches. --- On Sun, 8/12/12, Metric Rules Info <[email protected]> wrote: From: Metric Rules Info <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51846] NPR article To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 10:11 PM Speculates that “Track and field is relatively unpopular in the U.S., maybe because its feats are measured in a way that is meaningless to most Americans.” http://www.npr.org/2012/08/12/158658876/hard-lessons-at-the-olympics-like-the-metric-system?ft=1&f=1001
