Why we still deal with metric conversion in the U.S. August 17, 2016 Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do we still use the U.S. Customary System?

While most of the rest of the world uses the metric system (formally known as the International System of Units, or SI), the United States uses the U.S. Customary System, which—fun fact—is ...

Metric is the system of internationalism, and those who wish to fight it are against the country going metric. But Mihm told me that “most Americans just don’t really care that much.

And has an important place in the education system. [If the U.S. converted to metric] we could avoid costly disasters like that embarrassment in 1999.

Or, as Carlson says, “almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny — the metric system — from Beijing to Buenos Aires from Lusaka to London, the people of the world have ...

That’s why the metric system works better with calculations but is less intuitive. The original metric system had 10-day weeks so people would forget the Lord’s Day. — Redeemed Zoomer ...

The metric system is, quietly and behind the scenes, now the standard in most industries, with a few notable exceptions like construction. Its use in public life is also on the uptick, as anyone ...

Metric is the system of internationalism, and those who wish to fight it are against the country going metric. But Mihm told me that “most Americans just don’t really care that much.

And many Americans didn't want it. According to Gallup polling in 1977, of the Americans who knew what the metric system was -- which, somehow, was not all of them -- 60% of them opposed going metric.

The metric system is, quietly and behind the scenes, now the standard in most industries, with a few notable exceptions like construction. Its use in public life is also on the uptick, as anyone ...