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Science education? What’s that?

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My dumb way of saying any of the sciences

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Same to Brits who still use gallons and feet or whatever.

Nah metric is taught. Nobody knows what a gallon is. Feet and inches just feel really natural for short measurements like height or guesswork for measuring a room, everything that actually uses any precision is done in metric.

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Same to Brits who still use gallons and feet or whatever.

In my personal experience, metric is the default system of measure taught to students. Imperial mostly came up during my GCSEs specifically in a level 2 BTEC engineering course because a lot of the older machinery used in the workshop was in imperial but engineers use metric so we were taught how to convert between them.

Cooking courses also still use imperial weights and volume according to a mate that did one.

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We learn it in science class. Of course, just because you can do calculations using the metric system doesn’t mean you have an intuitive feel for how long a meter is. I got that from playing Minecraft and knowing each block is a meter across.

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You just learn metric. It’s just not used in every day situations like driving and stuff, but metric is always there

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I told my phone to report distances in metric and it confuses my passengers to know end.

Ten years of diligently playing ARMA and I mostly think in km anyway.

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