Do you want America to convert to the metric system?

Question

I don't care what you think about America or us or our problems. Yes or no. It's a survey.

Answer 1

YES.
Being different is costing the USA a lot of extra money in the machines we order and the products we buy from other countries due to the fact we are the only country using the inch/feet system and our machines and products have to be made different than the rest of the world which is a higher cost to all of us. The metric system is easier than the inch system, but harder to learn if you already know the inch system. But once you make the change life would be easier, so would math.
I think people who do not want to change are just lazy and don't want to learn anything new. Too bad. Life itself is learning something new everyday. As I see it there is no real reason we do not make the change. Yes, we would have to replace all the rules in the schools. But, you can still draw a straight line with a metric ruler!
Might start learning the metric system now, some day it will happen.

Answer 2

Simple instead of picking base measurements that have relivence to human experience they picked more random bases for metric than the old standards. So instead of walking off a distance knowing your foot is x close to a real foot you have to walk it off, then do multiple caluculations to get a guestimate about the lenght of say a wall or where to set home plate. Temp wise the metric is WAY off scale. Temps in C are not scaled to human experience. Who cares what the boiling point of water is? That's all great for scientific experiments where you are dealing with much larger ranges of temps. When it comes to whether to put a coat on or not one degree Celcius is a big deal. To have meaningfull temps you have to use 36.4 or some absurdity like that. When you say it's 98 F you are giving a pretty specific temp. The equiv of C is about what 6 degrees? So it could be 92 or 104 but it's the same temp in C if you don't use decimals. The scale is just not a good fit with human beings. When it comes to measurement centimeters have already been adopted for many tasks. If 100 centimeters equaled something close to a foot we'd adopted metric a long time ago. The problem is you go from centimeters to meters and that's a huge jump or you go inbetween to decameters. So your doing actually more work to measure something than the insane base 12 scale used in standard. Litres are one of the few measurements that work well with the human scale. Except for milk and a few other exceptions we've mostly converted to metric for fluid volumes. Other than that what needs to happen is for Metric to be regauged. Set on a human experience. The cubit and the yard are both based on about the same scale. There's a reason for this. It's what people use. It's easier. The metric system should reguage centimeters to be 1/100th of something close to a foot. Meters could then be 3 feet which would make it close to yards and cubits. Do that and you'd see quick adoption because it's in a human scale of practical value. Until then forget it. Too expend all the money it'd cost to change over for a system that doesn't make anything easier? That makes no sense. It would make things harder despite the obvious faults of the current standard measurements. That is why we dont' adopt it.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. This was tried when I was in High School. It only caused confusion and made many of us confused. I can see a foot but 304.8 mm makes no sense to me. I understand a yard but not a meter. A meter is 3.2808398950131233595800524934383 feet THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

Also, if the U.S. converts to the metric system, what will the cost be? Every manufacturer who uses the English system will be required to shut down, throw out or modify each and every one of their machines. This will create a lot of new temporary jobs which will make the democrats happy. They will be able to say we made more jobs in America. It will also cause a bunch of unemployment when all the machines are in place and they will be able to say they have helped those who are now on unemployment because they inflated taxes and there is new cash to be redirected to those who cannot work.

The cost of conversion is not worth the benefits. The only benefit is to have the U.S. go with European system so when the U.S. is no longer the U.S. but a state of the E.U. there will be one less thing that needs to be done.

Answer 4

Yes.
For one, it would make any questions asked on this board have standard units.
With so many countries having done it, It's not that hard.
The first step is to ensure that EVERY measuring device (rulers, weight scales, etc.) have BOTH units of measurement clearly marked.
Then have all published recipes / designs given in metric units, with the old measurements in brackets, ie. "add 170 ml water (1/4 pint)".
You can then take YEARS to reach then final stage: no references to non-metric units.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

everyone in america knows the english system, however many dont know the metric system, so id say no

Answer 7

While I don't doubt that we will *eventually* adopt Metric, I don't want us to. It would be a major pain to convert.

Answer 8

No, because that information would be lost for future generations.

Answer 9

No. I like the system we have better.

Answer 10

No, we should be different from the rest of the world.