Hi, I think in metric units, so almost everything is some form of a power of 10, like a kilogram is a 1000 grams, etc.

Sometimes I will think of an hour and half as 150 minutes before remembering that it is 90 minutes.

Does something similar happen to imperial units users? Because as far as I understand you don’t have obvious patterns that would cause you to make these mistakes, right?

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    10 months ago

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Ipw8GjRUfiA?si=RjD075y0aS6xCQHA

    At least these idiots agree with you. Water freezes at 30% hot!

    “The 100 is hot” idea is not only completely arbitrary and human centric, but also a vague personal perception. And I’m trying to be nice because it’s actually egocentric buffoonery that stems from the idea that everything revolves around us, whereas the metric scale puts people inside a measurable scientific interconnected system instead of our feelings being the center.

    We as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric.

    This is entirely the result of what you’re used to and has nothing to do with the system itself.