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By "some countries" you mean United States, Liberia, and Myanmar
by nutjob2 11mo ago
By "some countries" you mean United States, Liberia, and Myanmar
- andrewxdiamond 11mo agoand also by ‘some countries’ they mean about 4% of the earth’s population, or 1 in 25 people.
- SirHumphrey 11mo agoBut 26.3% of the world’s GDP.
- riffraff 11mo agoFwiw, Myanmar has been transitioning to metric since 2013 but, well, they had other worries. Likewise, Liberia set up a transition program in 2018. AFAIU both still use a bunch of traditional non US units too, like the UK.
- randyrand 11mo agoYou’ll find imperial units in lots of Chinese products too. After all, they’re the ones manufacturing the imperial screws, etc.
- kopirgan 11mo agoIn India, decades after metric, many will only understand feet and inches for height, length etc.. Think it's the same in many Asian countries, though some have moved on. But miles has gone out of fashion. Pounds too..
- dotancohen 11mo agoScience progresses one funeral at a time.
- overfeed 11mo agoThe kids need to learn a new system first for things to change. Canada understood this. The US insists on teaching future generations imperial units, so it won't change quickly.
- goku12 11mo agoSome of use in India don't even grok inches, miles, pounds, pints, ares or cubits. In fact, I haven't met anyone in the professional fields (science, engineering and medicine) who is comfortable with imperial or any other non-metric systems. Not even our parents are comfortable with them. It was a nightmare when we were faced with such units in public exams. That's an arcane skill that disappeared 3 or 4 generations ago. To be clear, I'm not claiming that the whole of India is like that. But I'm pointing to the fact that there are entire regions in India where it has been like that for generations.