formidable doer of the nasty wrote:
And you think it ain't broke? It's arcane and pointless and it's gotta be at least partially responsible for American school children lagging far behind others in math skills.
It should improve math skills because it's harder to add up distances or weights using imperial measurements.
Yeah, it would be great if we moved metric, but the cost would be immense (even the UK isn't entirely metric and they started the change in 1965. They actually got a special exception from the EU that permits certain measurements to be made in imperial units) and the benefits, really, would be pretty slight.
Remarkably, USAians are perfectly comfortable with metric measurements for alcohol and soft drinks. It's only everywhere else that we start freaking out.