Something I've considered recently is the case of estimating heighth (or any length) in customary vs. metric.
In the US, if I'm describing someone, perhaps to a police officer, I can fairly easily conceptualize the difference between 5ft, 5ft 6in, 6ft, or even smaller degrees of difference.
Though I'm certain this is likely just a result of me having grown up with the customary system, it seems like it would be more difficult (or at least more tedious) to estimate the heighth of a person using meters, given that most humans are in the 1.5-1.8m range (by my estimation). Especially when looking only at one gender, the range of possible heights is quite small in meters, requiring more precision to describe.
For example, I can reliably understand and visualize the difference between 5'0" and 5'4".
I'm curious for those in the rest of the world - can you meaningfully visualize the difference between 1.5m and 1.6m? Or perhaps 1.55m and 1.58m?
Not that this will (or should) surprise anyone at all, but I noticed (perhaps more so than normal) that many of the top headlines about this more than subtly imply that the shutdown was a result of the potential data exposure, rather than the lack of popularity.
In the US, if I'm describing someone, perhaps to a police officer, I can fairly easily conceptualize the difference between 5ft, 5ft 6in, 6ft, or even smaller degrees of difference.
Though I'm certain this is likely just a result of me having grown up with the customary system, it seems like it would be more difficult (or at least more tedious) to estimate the heighth of a person using meters, given that most humans are in the 1.5-1.8m range (by my estimation). Especially when looking only at one gender, the range of possible heights is quite small in meters, requiring more precision to describe.
For example, I can reliably understand and visualize the difference between 5'0" and 5'4".
I'm curious for those in the rest of the world - can you meaningfully visualize the difference between 1.5m and 1.6m? Or perhaps 1.55m and 1.58m?