The discussion about whether metric, imperial or any other system inherently makes more sense has been beaten to death. You can usually say that any given meas

The discussion about whether metric, imperial or any other system inherently makes more sense has been beaten to death. You can usually say that any given measurement system has intrinsic properties to recommend it, but I think any such discussion usually devolves into the same sort of nonsense as whether any two very different natural languages are inherently better than one another. Is English a better natural language than Chinese, or the other way around? I bet if you polled their native speakers on that, even you selected ones who were close to bilingual in the two, they'd usually like their native language better. It's very hard for people to step outside of themselves and recognize their cognitive biases. But it does tell you something that people who grew up with the imperial system are more likely to argue for its advantages, and the same for people who grew up with metric. It's not like it's genetic. > [...]notice how nearly every euro thermostat has decimals so you can set it to 17.5[...] This is an interesting point I hadn't heard before, but for the sake of consistency, do you think the US dollar is also an inherently inelegant currency because it has fractional values, as opposed to some other currencies that don't? Does the very existence of cents on the dollar annoy you as you go about your business? If you hold that view and you grew up with the imperial system and think 17.5 Celsius makes no sense, I congratulate you on your consistency. But I'm willing to bet that this isn't even a thing you'd noticed or thought of, which is indicative of the cognitive bias of just trying to find reasons for disliking what you're unfamiliar with, even when those reasons can be perfectly transposed on other things with which you are familiar. Side note: By "unfamiliar" I'm not claiming that say a European who dislikes the imperial system doesn't understand it, or the other way around. But as with natural languages measurement systems are something where it's hard to truly become "bilingual" as an adult. You can argue (and I think you'd be right) that say metric is simpler, but is it better by some objective metric in the minds of its users than imperial? Who knows. I could also try to argue with a native Chinese speaker that their writing system is overly complex, and I'm sure I'd get millions of them that would think I was crazy.