Another article with a more reasonable view about metric and the Olympics:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cheryl-b-frech/science-news-numbers_b_1761879.html
 
She highlights my frustration well.  Listening to NBC announcers babble in feet 
and inches, while officials measure against the backdrop of metric markings on 
the field is enormously confusing.  My solution is to mute the announcers, 
watch the athletes, and get the official results (in metric) from the results 
webpage.  (yes, NBC, that means I don't hear the commercials)

--- On Mon, 8/13/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:


From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:51850] Hard Lessons at the Olympics -- Or Just Uneducated?
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, August 13, 2012, 1:08 PM


Frankly, I am getting tired of all this handwringing about how "hard" the 
metric system is.  Get over it!  Six billion people around the world seem to 
have no problem with it.  Are Americans ignoramuses?

And now we find out (surprise!) that our USA Olympians look like fools before 
those of other nations because they haven't been educated in the world's (and 
the official US) measurement system.  And these people are supposed to be the 
cream of the crop.  What an example we are setting for the rest of the world.  
No wonder we're tied for 17th place with Iceland in education!

Hard Lessons At the Olympics, Like The Metric System
http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/08/12/hard-lessons-at-the-olympics-like-the-metric-system

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