It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y’all convert your measurements? It’s not even a daily thing. If I’m measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this. When I have needed to, it’s usually converting down (I.e. 1/3 of a foot), which imperial does handle better in more cases.

Like. I don’t care if we switch, I do mostly use metric personally, it just seems like a weird point to be the most common pro-metric argument when it’s also the one I’m least convinced by due to how metric is based off of base 10 numbering, which has so many problems with it.

Edit: After reading/responding a lot in the comments, it does seem like there’s a fundamental difference in how distance is viewed in metric/imperial countries. I can’t quite put my finger on how, but it seems the difference is bigger than 1 mile = 1.6km

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
      101·
      22 小时前

      Metric is very easy to learn, so I’m not sure I’d go around flaunting that reason…

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 小时前

        It is easy to learn how to convert between metric units. But that’s not what people mean when they talk about “learning metric”. They mean having an intuitive sense for how much, say, 100 meters or 100 milliliters is. Again, the emphasis on how easy it is to remember the conversion between meters and kilometers is extraneous.

        • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          21 小时前

          Yea, that’s the really easy part. It just takes exposure on a level that’s more than twice a month and it’s practically by osmosis.

          The conversions are the hard part.

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        22 小时前

        Same reason the metric people keep telling me to change. Because if I did, it would be better for them. Difference is, I don’t drone on and on about how superior my forms of measurement are

        • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
          2·
          25 分钟前

          Well that’s because it isn’t lol.

          My guess is, if the USA method was better:

          The USA would sanction countries until they adopted it. They would embed it in the national flag and insert it in the national anthem. They would make underwear out of it and put stickers on their 20yard-long cars.