Why are doctors offices going to metric system in the USA?

@Anniedlr Yeah, but you grown up with it. I did not..

I was told back in the 70s when they teaching metric system in school. That it was the measuring system used by communist

And if it ever came to the USA. USA was taken over by a communist country

This what our parents and grandparents told us and it what keep us American

@HumanEarth Yes I grew up with the metric system but that’s because I’m British not as you appear to assume Chinese 😂😂

I know you're British. You have said that lots of times on here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Like2play It's okay to down vote. I'm posting this so everyone knows who down voted. I just believe the metric system should stay out of the USA

@HumanEarth Whoever told you that was either plain ignorant, or a liar.

Still, it was during the Cold War and Vietnam War, and not ever so long after the MacArthy kangaroo-court wrecked the livelihoods of so many entertainers and scientists alike on flimsy pretexts, so I suppose we can make some allowances for your mis-informant.


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Talking of education, some years ago I often contributed to a knowledge Q&A site called Answers.com, a branch of Wikipedia.

Its Mathematics section was suffused with what appeared to be homework questions from American schoolchildren trying to learn the basic Metric System. Really, many simply wanted to cheat by asking someone else to give the answers!

I would not merely give the answer. I would show them how to convert from one to the other: simply multiply the given measurement by the relevant constant, which is information commonly, freely and easily available to anyone.

This was often sabotaged by two clowns who would write conversion-after-conversion, cluttered with words like "algebra" (needless) and "dimensional analysis" (wrong) to make it as complicated and confusing as possible... then often getting their own arithmetic wrong. I complained to the administrators but these idiots were still allowed to carry on. I felt sorry for teachers handed homework taking several pages just to convert, say, 40 miles to "how many kilometres". (It is of course 64: the multiplier 8/5 is close enough for most practical journeys, and usually easy enough for mental arithmetic!)


The same section also had questions from swimming-pool owners, trying to calculate the correct dosages of disinfectant, etc. sold and instructed in metric measures, for pools in feet and US Gallons. A few did not even know the difference between area and volume, more did not seem to know how to calculate their pool's volume, which is typically rectangular in plan with a sloping floor. I would help them all as much as possible by walking them through the best order of calculations, and the conversions, one step at a time.

@ArishMell

Back in the 70s when they tried to teach this junk in schools. Parents, grandparents, companies and i guess many others protested against this. Just like I am now, Metric system is un-American and controlled by a communist take over of the USA.

You can write till your fingers bleed. I will not change my mind

@HumanEarth I know I won't because you refuse to question the tripe told to you in childhood by people terrified that anything not American-invented, is "Communist".

Actually, that was around the time the UK officially started converting to Metric.

There was a lot of resistance here to that, but only by innate conservatism (small 'c). Nobody was so daft as to think the metric units were "Communist"... even though we were uncomfortably close geographically to the Soviet bloc.

No - we all knew they were invented by our next-door neighbour, France; and of course many Britons already had some inkling of everyday use of metres, kilometres and litres by holidaying "on the Continent".

Just as Americans would by holidaying in Canada, or any other country.