Do Americans find metric too difficult?

[Meathead]

I use both imperial and metric. Whatever I'm doing, if metric or imperial works better, I use that. When it comes to Quantity Surveying, I have to use metric because materials are sold in metric units.

Do you, or can you use metric?

Having lived a long time in Europe and the US, I don't have a problem with either with the exception of the height of people. I seem to understand what 5'6" is, for some reason metric doesn't work for me.

 

[Unkotare]

75% of Americans have never been abroad ...

Where did you pull that figure from?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Really Teach? We sent a man to the Moon and back using good ol' feet and miles with slide rules and computers less powerful than a Radio Shack calculator. It all just depends on what you're used to using. But Boeing switched from fueling their jets from gallons to liters causing a technician to get confused and the jet ran out of fuel over the ocean and 250 people died.

Never happened until they went metric.

We also crashed a Mars probe due to the same thing!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Good job
You just described common core
You showed an alternative way to solve the same problem

You supported common core without even knowing

The decimal equivalent is a rational number. Hence the word number.
A non-terminating decimal
Nice try saying a fraction isn’t a number

Fractions are rational numbers
Your simple numbers are
Whole numbers
Natural numbers
Or Integers.

Most people forget that the word decimal actual means a decimal fraction.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Having lived a long time in Europe and the US, I don't have a problem with either with the exception of the height of people. I seem to understand what 5'6" is, for some reason metric doesn't work for me.

Same here

 

[hadit]

Having lived a long time in Europe and the US, I don't have a problem with either with the exception of the height of people. I seem to understand what 5'6" is, for some reason metric doesn't work for me.

I still have to convert between meters and yards to get a perception of what 1.85 meters means.

 

[Captain Caveman]

What pisses me off are American Scientists that think they are big shits using metric measurements.

Just shows you how weak minded they are. If they use metric they should be required to denounce their American citizenship and turn in their passport.

Yes, stick to the old British colonial system.

 

[Meathead]

I still have to convert between meters and yards to get a perception of what 1.85 meters means.

I'm 1.83, 6', so that's not a problem for me, 6'1". LOL

 

[braalian]

It’s all about what you grew up using.

I acknowledge that metric is more rational and the superior system. But I’ll never be able to grasp kilograms or meters without converting them to pounds and yards.

Converting to metric will only work if we teach it to kids as young as possible

 

[Zebra]

It’s all about what you grew up using.

I acknowledge that metric is more rational and the superior system. But I’ll never be able to grasp kilograms or meters without converting them to pounds and yards.

Converting to metric will only work if we teach it to kids as young as possible

so be it!

 

[westwall]

Where did you pull that figure from?

Their ass.

 

[Robert W]

Metric is a far superior system.

For what purposes?

 

[braalian]

For what purposes?

For all purposes.

That’s why both the military and healthcare use it

 

[hadit]

For all purposes.

That’s why both the military and healthcare use it

Ml's are easier to measure than drams.

 

[whitehall]

Americans who grew up with one system naturally have a difficult time dealing with a different system. The Military works with metric mostly because of NATO and Europeans who might have a difficult time with the American system. When you factor in the poor federal education system that can't get children to learn basic math the metric system becomes redundant.

 

[Robert W]

For all purposes.

That’s why both the military and healthcare use it

They both also use English. Should we convert to just English?

 

[braalian]

They both also use English. Should we convert to just English?

America’s never had an official language.

Hasn’t hurt us so far. I don’t really care one way or that other tbh

 

[Robert W]

America’s never had an official language.

Hasn’t hurt us so far. I don’t really care one way or that other tbh

America has also never gone Metric system either.

 

[Winco]

For what purposes?

Enjoy the humor.

 

[Polishprince]

America can handle the metric system, and we do it tremendously well.

Its just that we don't use metric for everything.

We measure things like our whisky in milliliters, our cigarettes in millimeters and our cocaine in keys.

All metric measurements where it MAKES SENSE to use metrics.

But not where it doesn't make sense.