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It literally doesn’t matter at all what’s 0 and 100 though. Honestly if you’re familiar with one system, the scale feels intuitive to you, and if you’re familia

It literally doesn’t matter at all what’s 0 and 100 though. Honestly if you’re familiar with one system, the scale feels intuitive to you, and if you’re familiar with the other then the other one does. Like people tell me that the US customary system is “more human scale and intuitive” but I literally cannot picture, say, 15 inches or ten feet - it just means nothing to me unless I mentally convert to centimetres or meters. So much of these arguments boil down to “I grew up with this system so I can intuitively use it, so it must be superior”

delta_p_delta_x 1y ago
> I grew up with this system so I can intuitively use it, so it must be superior This is essentially every American argument for USC or Imperial units. In fact, there are actually legitimate reasons why some legacy units are superior—for instance the duodecimal or sexagesimal systems which have many more factors than the decimal. But every other argument is a variation of 'it's better because I know it better'.