Would you be able to adjust if the U.S converts to the metric system, as did Europe and Australia?
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I could but I know a lot of people who couldn't.
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Of course I would be able to adjust. The metric system has been taught in US public schools for decades now. BTW, Europe and Australia aren't the only countries to use the metric system. Canada uses it, as does India.
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No, and i also refuse to learn spanish.
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I could and I would love it! ( I`m from Europe, living in the U.S) ..lol
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Whoo hoo! No more having to buy two kinds of tools & bolts - if USA did that, life would be easier over here in metricland as well (due to less duplication in certain areas - like tools & hardware)
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I eventually would get used to it, but I'd have to use dimensional analysis for it for a while in order to convert!
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I think that metric system makes much more sense than the american system. If they were to change it to metric I think I would be carrying around my meter stick for a few weeks!
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I was pretty comfortable with the metric system in public school, they made a point to teach both, atleast some, but I have been in college for a while now and don't use it, and I am sure I have forgotten most of it, so it would take me some time, but I think I could pick it up pretty quickly.
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Yes. They taught it in my school for awhile before switching back to our original system. It would take me 2 or 3 years to get used to it, though.
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I think I would adjust great. Its much more logical. I think the U.S. Standard System is nonsense. Plus im going in engineering, and thats what I mostly use in my classes at school now anyway.
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I wouldn't be able to. My school doesn't teach it :(
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What are you talking about!?! I live in the U.S. and don't understand either system. The more I learn the more backwards I get. Tried learning both and just got confused. So now I just ballpark everything.
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I would. I mean, you only need to learn how to count to 10 and know some basic arithmetic and you should be able to use it. Now accepting its use, I don't think the general public would be all about it even though most people don't know the how many yards are in a mile or how many fluid oz's are in a gallon.
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Yes. We use metric units in my engineering classes most of the time anyway.
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Yes, I use metric for work. Everything in automotive is metric. The biggest thing would be thinking in kilometers.
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Yes, and I think it would be great (lived in U.S. my whole life). it would take a while to adjust, but it would be worth it.
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Yep. It's just a unit of measure. I just wish we wouldn't do things so d*mned half-*ssed in this country like we did in the 70s in trying to convert from one system to the other. Just do it and be done with it! We had the right idea: Show the equivalencies for a period of time, shift our weights and standards over to the metric system, and then after the time period was done, just drop the old English system. H*ll, my Dad, born in 1923, even said if they would just make up their minds and shift, he would be just as happy building houses using a metric tape measure as he would have been using an english tape measure.
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yes easy'
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First of all I doubt the U.S. will change all the mile markers on the interstate for a change in system. And it's pretty unnessesary to officially change the system. Anyways, if they did I would be able to. It's not really a change in my life at all.
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well currently both systems are present, its just that the US system is more prominent and established. metric is making its way beside the US customary however
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I have already done so in 1975, the year of the Metric Conversion Act. I was 8 years old then, and eager to make the switch.
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Yes. It is increments of ten so it would be easier to teach. Our schools are embarassing.
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No, and I speak as someone from the UK. The idea that formerly Imperial-using countries have just adjusted is a myth. It may now be illegal in the UK and Canada to display measurements just in imperial, but the average person on the street still uses imperial. It may take a couple of generations to change that. As someone in their twenties from the UK, I was taught metric at school, but in everyday life imperial is what is used. I think in miles, feet and inches. I couldn't tell you a distance in km, my weight in kg, or my height in cm.
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Please tell me they are not considering that too?
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those teaches tried to do this to us in 8th grade back many moons ago. i can honestly say it did not work then and i am even more set in my ways now.
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the problem I have with learning the metric system is frame of reference to picture 3 m I have to picture 10 linear ft my tuck takes 15 qts of oil. it's hard for me to measure 14.19 l
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