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It depends on what you're exposed to growing up. Centimetres come naturally to someone being taught centimeters as a child (source: my childhood), and there are probably as many ways of using the body as reference as there are with imperials.
Even though I know the length of an inch, a foot, a yard or a mile by heart, it is through constantly converting the metric value in my head to the imperial one. Because growing up with metrics, those are the units I naturally use. :P
I'm definitely biased, as I'm part of the rest of the world. And I know for a fact my foot ain't one foot long, not even close, so the convenience there is lost.
As for generally implied measurements, Fahrenheit being the default is of course only in the US. I don't see much reason for confusion here though, as it's pretty easy to see when a user is American and the connection can easily be made to then assume that they use Fahrenheit. It's pretty beneficial for both sides to learn both systems, needless to be said.
If anything, the massive confusion is going to occur whenever the US starts systematically changing to the metric system, if that happens. Not all of them. There'll always be some nagging unit system conservatives.
It depends on what you're exposed to growing up. Centimetres come naturally to someone being taught centimeters as a child (source: my childhood), and there are probably as many ways of using the body as reference as there are with imperials.
Even though I know the length of an inch, a foot, a yard or a mile by heart, it is through constantly converting the metric value in my head to the imperial one. Because growing up with metrics, those are the units I naturally use. :P
I'm definitely biased, as I'm part of the rest of the world. And I know for a fact my foot ain't one foot long, not even close, so the convenience there is lost.
As for generally implied measurements, Fahrenheit being the default is of course only in the US. I don't see much reason for confusion here though, as it's pretty easy to see when a user is American and the connection can easily be made to then assume that they use Fahrenheit. It's pretty beneficial for both sides to learn both systems, needless to be said.
If anything, the massive confusion is going to occur whenever the US starts systematically changing to the metric system, if that happens. Not all of them. There'll always be some nagging unit system conservatives.
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