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It's easy to pick out non-STEM types. They are the ones who blandly spout the "Go METRIC" meme, without ever determining why we haven't.

But, they wouldn't be the ones who would have to pay to simply eliminate all the Imperial tooling, machines, and the tools to maintain and repair them.

A company has a 60 year old packaging machine with a burned out motor. It's scaled in inches, uses a 20 inch sheet of plastic as feed stock. A Leftist would demand that it be scrapped. A conservative would want to replace the motor.

15 posted on 12/07/2019 7:21:14 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)

I'm an engineer. All of my education is in SI units, A.K.A. metric. At the same time all of my real world experience is in imperial units. It leads me to always be doing conversions in my head now whenever I have to use metric in the real world. Like "So it's 1500 km, that's about 4,500 feet and 5,280 ft/mile so it's a little over 3/4 mile." Because even after all these years I have no real world frame of reference that lets me just "think" in metric, I have to translate it except when just doing math.

But don't worry, I'm an electrical engineer so my disability with metric isn't dangerous! Volts and amps are the same in both!