On 10/8/2015 1:51 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-10-08 2:07 PM, graham wrote:
>
>> It would be less than that. If kids are taught it in school without
>> converting into footric at the same time, they will only think in metric.
>> When I moved to Australia almost 45 years ago, the met office announced
>> that "as of Monday, all temperatures will be given in Celsius." One soon
>> got used to it by being forced to associate the weather with a
>> particular number - which is all it is.
>
>
>> Distances and sizes are more difficult to accommodate if one has been
>> raised in the old system.
>
> Not really.

Yes really.

> The trick is to stop converting all the time.

So as a trick then it is, by definition, "more difficult".

> In stead of
> measuring something in one system and converting it to another, just use
> the measurement. It is the converting part that messes people up and
> there is usually no need to do that.

Unless its temperatures.