Wow! Frankly, I'm amazed!
Jim
On 2015-03-13 12:07, Michael Payne wrote:
I see your letter obviously had the desired effect, the units are now metric
first followed by the conversion.
Mike Payne
On 12 Mar 2015, at 21:06, James <[email protected]> wrote:
I sent the following mail via an online form page to Purch.com, publishers of Live
Science and kindred "representatives". Of course, I have no hope that anything
will change, but it's a drop in the bucket. They have my email address and might reply.
If they do, I will post it.
The article I refer to was found on foxnews.com but the Live Science link is
http://www.livescience.com/50104-archaeologists-excavate-bedlam-graveyard.html
Jim
Subj: Unit manipulation/Live Science
Your article "'Bedlam' Graveyard Excavation May Reveal Thousands of Skeletons"
demonstrates a practice of yours that has a negative educational impact. You usually convert metric
units to US Customary even when the original source used metric units. Those 19.6 feet were 6
meters. And those 35 cubic feet were 1 cubic meter. Anyone who attended high school after 1960
knows what a meter is; they have seen and handled meter sticks. Your "dumbing down"
practice is, in effect, a lie to your readers. Please stop being dishonest.
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