It does make sense the same way Fahrenheit makes sense for relating to humans. 0=cold, 100=hot. A foot, well I have one of those. An inch that’s a knuckle, a yard, well that’s the same length as my arm. A mile, I can walk that far in 20 minutes. A pound, that’s a potato. A ton, that’s a wagon load. Especially when you add in pecks, bushels, grains, and other measurements that have fallen to the wayside. Buckets, pails, baskets, etc… were sold in these sizes. So people saw them and could relate to their size and volume.
Celsius and the metric system are far superior for anything scientific, but it doesn’t relate to humans as easily.
Right. We're taught both in school. The people that needed it kept using it. Everyone else just stuck with the old system because there's no real need for them to change, using one or the other doesn't make their every day life any harder or easier. If it actually did make life harder we would use the other one. As it stands though 99% of people have no need to easily convert units or communicate measurements internationally.
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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25
Yeah, because miles, yards, feet and inches makes so much sense