Imperial Nonsense
Discussion
Suspect it's the other way round now in terms of proportion of working population educated and brought up on metric measurements being the majority.
I was brought up in early years on imperial, but still in school when SI units taught, now after years of working in both metric and imperial weights and measures due to dealing with USA and RoW either comes naturally.
Even then some things come naturally, eg weather temperatures, feels better to talk Fahrenheit when it's hot but Celsius when it's cold. Why?
I was brought up in early years on imperial, but still in school when SI units taught, now after years of working in both metric and imperial weights and measures due to dealing with USA and RoW either comes naturally.
Even then some things come naturally, eg weather temperatures, feels better to talk Fahrenheit when it's hot but Celsius when it's cold. Why?
grumpy52 said:
As the vast majority of the driving public didn't have a metric education they default to imperial.
Schools went metric in the late 60's / early 70's, so to have not had a metric education at all one would really need to have been born in the late 50's at the latest.The UK's median age is 40.5
I suppose the driving population might be a little older, but I suspect not that much older.
FiF said:
Even then some things come naturally, eg weather temperatures, feels better to talk Fahrenheit when it's hot but Celsius when it's cold. Why?
Because that's how the newspapers report it, because it makes it sound more dramatic.https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/...
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