Should the metric system be banned?

Question

It is just too confusing. It's also only a few years old and all of a sudden it's just supposed to be normal?

Answer 1

It may seem confusing, but if you practice the conversions, and look at all your measurements in temperature, volume, etc. in both American standard and metric, you will eventually adjust to it. It is kind of confusing to me, and I am going to try this too. Some people can understand it, some can't. You and me were born with the American standard, that's what we understand. Hope that I helped!

Answer 2

It should be adopted, not banned. I've had many headaches in engineering work using miles, yards, feet, inches and 1/16 to 1/64 inches. It is so much easier to use multiples of ten in such calculations. We do use a metric system in money. Would you prefer the English system in money as well as other measurements. Once, in Britain, 12 pence made a shilling, and 20 shillings made a pound. As if that wasn't enough, a pound plus a shilling made a sovereign. Imagine being a clerk in a store and having to make change with such a system. I'd soon be a nervous wreck. Britain now uses a decimal system in money, as we have for a long time.

Answer 3

Ok first of all, more countries in the world use the metric system than whatever retarded system of measurement we have here. Second, just about ALL labs, research and clinical use metric system. I'd like to see someone measure grams of salt for a buffering solution in pounds. Third, the metric system follows a base 10 progression, much like our system of counting. Doesn't it make sense to have a system of measurement that's similar to the way we count? And what is up with Fahrenheit? In Celsius, water freezes at zero, boils at 100. Makes sense. But here, it freezes at 32 and boils at 212...what the hell kind of random numbers are those? Metric system is just confusing for you because you're used to working with our system, and it's a pain to convert, which is due to the flaws in this system, not of the metric.

Answer 4

No,- even though I was brought up using imperial measure (feet, inches, pints, pounds etc.) I'm English and we still use miles not kilometres. But all our other weights and measures have changed to metric in the last few years. I can see how the metric is easier for children who've never used the imperial, but for older people like me its confusing sometimes. But mostly we're used to it now. So I'd say keep the metric system for most things. BUT keep the miles (used in the U S, the U K, and many other parts of the world) instead of kilometres. Kilometres I can NEVER get used to.

Answer 5

As someone in the generation between imperial and metric, I can tell you how many meters is in 6'6" (2), but I still think in terms of feet and pints. Currency, on the other hand, I haven't the foggiest about.

The advantage to the metric system though, is that it isn't arbitrary (example, why are there 16 ounces in a pound and 14 pounds in a stone?!) and can be easily interchanged in a global market.

Answer 6

How on earth can a rational system like metric be banned?? Its the imperial system that should be eradicated.

For God's sake, 4 pints; 16 oz; 2,204 pounds; 5 and 3/32" - none of the figures relate to the decimal system that we use in our everyday life.

Answer 7

It is the English system that must be discarded. There is a law in the USA for the adoption of the metric system. But business is too stubborn and selfish to implement it. The government itself do not follow it. Imagine a law passed by governnment and the government do not follow it.

The entire world is in the metric system except the United States. It is much easier to learn that the English system. If you have ten fingers, then metric system should be intuitive for you.

Answer 8

The metric system is much more than a few years old... I don't know how old you are, but I learned it over 50 years ago. And I think it should be adopted by the U.S. because the rest of the world already uses it... and HAS FOR YEARS... it's only AmeriKans who are too stupid to use it.

Answer 9

if you did any research, you will find out that the metric system is very old.the american system is the newer system. you will also find out that the metric system is used worldwide except for america and it babies or colonies. you cannot ban something that is accepted worldwide and is way easier because it is not used in america. consider water whose freezing point is 0 degrees and boiling point is 100 degrees in celsius or centigrade and rethink ur assuumption that the mmetric system is harder cos its a lot simpler

Answer 10

the English system should be done away with ... heck the English don't even use the English system.

In the metric system, everything is based on ten. Very easy.