“Now hold your hands about a meter apart. How much do you want to bet that your latter estimate is more inaccurate than your former?”
The foot is far more accurate and so is the inch. And what a stupid means of trying to justify the meter, an arbitrary unit of length. “Hold out your hands”??
You may be more accusomed to SI and therefore believe it is more user friendly so why is it that children have such a hard time with it the world over? The meter fits nothing, not even the speed of light or a unit of Earthly measure, and don’t even get me started on the gram.
I wasn't trying to justify anything, you unbelievably dimwit, I was trying to explain what it means to have an "intuitive grasp" of a system of measurement, since you demonstrated with your absolutely retarded question that you didn't understand the concept. But as I suspected, attempting to explain anything to you is an exercise in futility.
The meter was originally defined so that the great circle distance from the equator to the north pole would be exactly 10 million meters.
The meter fits nothing, not even the speed of light or a unit of Earthly measure, and don’t even get me started on the gram.
So what does a foot fit, or a yard, or an inch?
Seems to me you can measure the speed of light or a unit of earthly measure with either system just fine.
For the average kid, the metric system is easier to grasp.
Funny how even American kids sell grams of pot, or coke etc. instead of 1/32 of an ounce.