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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's true, but it's also a double edged sword: you can easily learn metric just by switching to it.

Try setting a weather widget on your phone to only show you Celsius and don't convert it to Fahrenheit, over time you will get an intuitive understanding of what feels cold to you.

The biggest block to learning a new system is insulating yourself with conversions IMO, imagine trying to learn a new language by just having everyone speak into Google translate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm fluent in metric but I can't think in anything but imperial, I'm merely converting in my head on the fly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yep, that's my life, pretty much. OTOH, my kids don't have to live under the curse of arbitrary units of measurement and only have a vague idea of what a foot is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s a good idea that I think I will try out. To be honest, I have a pretty hard time visualizing distance, even with imperial, so sadly I don’t think that help will help me in that area.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s weird, because small units I think about it cm, not imperial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm the same actually, I'm probably more likely to say 1cm than half an inch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Millimeters as well for you? It’s probably because having to use fractions is so much less intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Millimeters especially, no way am I saying like "1/24th of an inch"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm doing the slow switch with decimal time. It works!