Thread: The Metric System
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Old 05-08-2008   #27 (permalink)
LongRod
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Originally Posted by nudeyorker View Post
US tried it in the seventies...Most Americans were too stupid to understand it!
No, it wasn't that Americans were too stupid to understand it. Americans were too inflexible to migrate to another measurment standard. Actually it is easier because it is a 10 base measuring system, but we are so used to 8 ounces = 1 cup; 16 ounces = 1 pint; 16 ounces = 1 pound but 1 pint is not 1 pound. 12 inches = 1 foot; 3ft=1 yard; 5,280 ft= 1 mile.

Now, there were certain Americans that mastered grams, kilograms etc. They could just take a look and they knew how much a kilo was, without using a scale.