Comment by Moru
3 years ago
One argument would be "the best system is the one that everyone agrees on" [1]. Lower risk for big mistakes.
3 years ago
One argument would be "the best system is the one that everyone agrees on" [1]. Lower risk for big mistakes.
These always make for fun news articles but that's because these situations are rare.
Again, nobody, anywhere that I'm aware of, is sitting around insisting for imperial units as a matter of principle. We just don't care. We use and learn metric where we use it (all the sciences, chemistry, physics, etc in American schools are taught in metric). And we use imperial where we use it, mostly in daily life. And it's perfectly fine.
For example, I personally prefer grams (more because of weight, but still preferred to ounces) to cups (volume) in recipes because it removes density as a variable (a packed cup of flour vs a loose cup of flour)
> "everyone agrees on"
"Everyone" in what scope? For an international team of engineers and scientists, the answer is obviously metric. But if "everybody" in the relevant context is other tradesmen in America, then "everybody" agrees on the American customary units. It doesn't matter to the latter what the former pick.