Hi, Guest
05-31-2006, 05:54 AM
You guys are awesome, for all your asnwers are brief but to the point. If the number of surveyed people will get to 30, I can use the normal distribution formula.
A couple of words about myself. As I said I was borne in a fully metric country (since 1923) and lived there for 18 years. Naturally, anything besides metric was not known to me. After I moved to the USA, I managed to adopt to some of the SAE units whilst retaining the other. Here is where I stand with respect to both systems:
a. Short distance? [metres only, but I use feet & inches to measure my own height]
b. Long distance? [miles only]
c. Temperature? [Celcius and Farenheit equally]
d. Volume? [Litres and maybe gallons]
e. Mass? [kg and grammes, but I use pounds to measure my own weight]
f. Land area? [hectare only]
I installed the metric (only) face gauges in my Focus, so that I can learn how 120 km/h feels like. Having learnt driving in the USA, I unfortunately have a little idea what a kilometre is. I guess, it is time to revive the metric system in my head :rolleyes:
A couple of words about myself. As I said I was borne in a fully metric country (since 1923) and lived there for 18 years. Naturally, anything besides metric was not known to me. After I moved to the USA, I managed to adopt to some of the SAE units whilst retaining the other. Here is where I stand with respect to both systems:
a. Short distance? [metres only, but I use feet & inches to measure my own height]
b. Long distance? [miles only]
c. Temperature? [Celcius and Farenheit equally]
d. Volume? [Litres and maybe gallons]
e. Mass? [kg and grammes, but I use pounds to measure my own weight]
f. Land area? [hectare only]
I installed the metric (only) face gauges in my Focus, so that I can learn how 120 km/h feels like. Having learnt driving in the USA, I unfortunately have a little idea what a kilometre is. I guess, it is time to revive the metric system in my head :rolleyes:
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?