> >All measurement systems are abstract representations, and all of the arguments always come down to ease of use. Whichever system a person is accustomed to is the easiest.
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> While this is true, I'm sure that it is also true that while a person brought up using SI can more easily use than than metric, a person brought up using metric can more easily use metric than the person who grew up using SI can use SI.

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> > Myth #3) Customary is out of date.
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> > It's being used right now. In any case, time and the usefulness of measuring systems are unrelated.
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> True, but usefulness of measuring systems and USE of measuring systems ARE related, and there are a great many people wanting to change measuring systems. If SI was a wonderful and perfect system, there wouldn't be nearly so many people wanting to get rid of it.

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> Myth #8) A few crazy SI Hippies are really uptight about their right to be innefficient and perpetuate their inefficiency for their children.

Just to clear something up here - you are using "SI" to mean "imperial measures", yes? I needed to read this post twice before I worked that out and it made sense.

"SI" is the french acronym for the "International Scientific" measurement system, more commonly known as the "metric" system (Or is a superset of the metric system. Or something along those lines).

As the main advantage I can see of the SI system is that it cuts down on possible ambiguity (pop quiz: which weighs more - a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?), it would help if I could unambiguously tell which measurement system you bwere arguing in favour of.

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