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Originally Posted by Drbraunsr
It's the same reason that the US ranks so poorly in math scoring.
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This is ironic. Math is sooo much easier in the metric system, where everything is a matter of ones and decimal points. In the imperial system it's conversion tables - 12 inches to a foot, three ft. to a yard, 5280 ft. to a mile, etc. We are idiots, nonetheless.