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Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Canadians, You're Neutral in This Fight?
Canadians had just switched from imperial to metric units. They didn't realize that the units behind the specific gravity were based on kilograms, and they assumed it was pounds. So there was this extra one layer of an opaque bit of putting it into a slightly different way of looking at it. I love the quirkiness of the imperial system. That metric is nice and straightforward, yo. But if there's one thing that's worse than using imperial units, it's using imperial units when you think you're using metric units - exactly.
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