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While I could talk at length about the intuitive advantages of customary units (and how that alone isn't enough to outweigh the advantages of the metric system)
by kibwen 3y ago
While I could talk at length about the intuitive advantages of customary units (and how that alone isn't enough to outweigh the advantages of the metric system), pounds aren't intuitive (humans are pretty bad at intuiting weight in general) and neither are miles (humans are decent at intuiting human-scale lengths, but miles are just too long).
- emodendroket 3y agoOnce we start getting into large units the argument seems ridiculous. Especially with stuff like a hogshead that is a slightly different amount depending on what is being measured.