• OT - Videos for Americans should use terms Americans are accustomed to

    From _@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 30 13:36:39 2021
    It amazes me, the propensity for many
    in the scientific & other communities to
    use metric terms when producing videos
    for American viewers.

    They might as well use Chinese or Russian
    or Greek when they babble on about stones
    or meters or kilometers or Celsius as most
    Americans use inches, feet, pounds, miles,
    tablespoons, ounces, Fahrenheit.

    As for Disparate High Glucose Conditions,
    like Islit (Insulinitis, near-total to total loss
    of endogenous insulin), Europeans often
    recite their glucose levels in mmol/L. For
    some reason, glucose levels in America
    use mg/dL. Why? I have no idea other ...

    ... than the propensity for differences to
    exist for no logical or defensible reason: https://www.joslin.org/patient-care/diabetes-education/diabetes-learning-center/conversion-table-blood-glucose-monitoring

    Back to metric/American differences, if
    they really wanted to reach & influence
    Americans, they should do the work of
    converting to terms Americans are famil-
    iar with when making videos for American
    audiences.

    It appears that much of the scientific com-
    munity doesn't give a damn about connec-
    ting with American audiences & couldn't
    care less that their arrogance turns off
    Americans & contributes to many Ameri-
    cans being disinterested in science.

    They'd rather have Americans whipping
    out their conversion calculators to grasp
    the metric terms they incessantly use (if
    they even care to think about such mat-
    ters) than they would simply use those
    same calculators themselves & use terms ...

    ... Americans are accustomed to in order
    to connect with and engage and increase
    the receptivity of American audiences to
    science.

    An example of the importance Americans
    place on their customary measurements:

    "One World Trade Center, the building, in-
    cluding its spire, reach a total height of
    1,776 feet. Its height in feet is a deliberate
    reference to the year when the United States
    Declaration of Independence was signed."

    That's AMERICAN. 541 meters, the metric
    height of the building, is meaningless to
    Americans. Sheesh, get real, videos for
    Americans should use the lingo Americans
    use, NOT the lingo of Europeans or any-
    where else, and should NOT arrogantly ...

    ... impose non-American metric terminol-
    ogy as if in doing so Americans are in any
    way impressed, we're NOT, we're turned off
    every time we have to reach for a damn con-
    version calculator to figure out what the hell
    the metric lingo means in inches or feet or ...

    ... pounds or miles or tablespoons or ounces
    or Fahrenheit.

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