Americans , what is your opinion on switching to the metric system?
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I literally don't care. They're all numbers and the circle jerk about metric vs imperial is just kind of annoying at this point. It's all relative to what's useful to you. If you can't picture how long a centimeter is in your head, it isn't a useful form of measurement for you. Same thing goes for temperature. I grew up knowing Fahrenheit and can't conceptualize what degrees in Celsius feel like so getting my temperature in Celsius is useless to me. Also, people in other countries like to act like we don't know what a meter is. We know. We learned it in school. We just don't care. My only issue with metric is there isn't a unit between centimeters and meters but there's a huge size difference. It's a lot simpler to say you're five ft tall instead of 152 cm or 1 m 52 cm.
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If you think I'm going to switch from football fields per obese child, think again!
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In general I wouldn't care, but you'd have to pry my Farenheit from my cold, dead hands. C degrees are too big.
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As a British person, don't you dare try and take my pint away from me.
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It'd be annoying having to get used to it but it'd be better for everybody if we did lol so I'm in.
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What difference does it make when Big Tape Measure is lobbying with tens of dollars to keep inches so they don't have to paint more lines?
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In thermo, like the class? That's not the real world bud, they make everyone do a ton of unnecessary unit conversions in college to get people comfortable with it. In house metric imperial conversions rarely are needed and usually it's just converting mass with extremely simple equations for purchasing material. I've toured a dozen plants and not a single one of them switched back and forth.
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Oh jesus, this again. I'm a tradesman and machinist regularly working in US standard units and occasionally metric. Each has their strengths and weaknesses depending on what you're trying to do. Most computation is done on a calculator today, so you're just hitting buttons and reading the answer anyway. If you can't figure out how to do whatever task you're doing in both, you probably shouldn't be doing it. The exception to this is estimation, because being accurate at that depends on your familiarity with the system.
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