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Sounds about right. I know this guy at work who can't tell time unless the clock is digital.
Met more than a few that can't read and others that can not read a tape measure.
I have given a class on the latter at least three times with groups that needed to learn that.
Most were older and not young adults, late 20's to in their 50's.
One of the first things taught to us when I went to school.
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1.143 people out of every 1 person can't utilize fractions.
My last class on tape measures was advanced, converting decimals to fractions so that a tape measure could be used to measure.
My dad,two uncles and a great uncle were Millwrights before I joined..they drilled proper use of precise measurement into my head from a very early age..it sounds more complicated than it is though doesn't it
In 6th Grade they told us that would be within the next 10 years.
That was in 1967.
lol
near Olympia, WA, there's still a few signs that have both mileage and kilometers. And there's a Canadian show, the Mercer Report has a sketch, set in the early 70s in which Canada jumped on the metric system because they thought America was on the verge of adopting it. "If our number one trading partner is going to metric, we better get on that!" lol
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In 6th Grade they told us that would be within the next 10 years.
That was in 1967.
That is hilarious! We were told the EXACT same thing in 6th grade and that was 1976! Lmao..that's crazy when people line up history isn't it? I remember my poor old dad being furious at having to buy a full set of metric tools (and I do mean a FULL set too,not Craftsman either)in the mid 70's to work on a Brown Boveri turbine and him sitting at the dinner table with his head in his hands saying "this is America..SAE is OUR standard by GOD!..they should ship those SOB's in SAE".....those were the days.
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