• Zink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Plus, many of us are in STEM fields and appreciate/prefer the metric/SI system. However, we think in imperial units because that’s what we used in daily life in our formative years.

    I have no problem with metric units, but I do a rough mental conversion to imperial to relate to the measurement, and get a “feel” for it. This goes for temperature, distance, speed, volume, weight/mass, pressure, and essentially anything else that’s an everyday unit.

    It’s analogous to how much of the world thinks of nuclear explosions in terms of kilotons or megatons of TNT. I mean, all you have to do is multiply megatons by 4.184e+15 and you’re back to the sensible unit of Joules. :)

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      1 year ago

      I go back to what my professor in my first engineering class told us – a good engineer can work in any unit system.

      At the end of the day, imperial vs metric is an argument you have over some beers with friends. It’s inconsequential.