Metric System

A change to the metric system would be beneficial to the United States because not only it is easier to use, but it would make conducting business/trades easier, communication better, improve the economy, and help the country to not fall behind in the global economy. The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t use the metric system as its primary system of measurement. Changing to the metric system will make the United States be on the same system of measurement with the rest of the world. It will also prevent incidents like NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter incident due to a failure of the engineers to convert units from customary to metric. According to NASA, peer review findings indicated that the cause of loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter was because one team used the customary system of measurement,
Growing up having a father who was a carpenter and an architect, I’ve learned that it is much easier to do fractions using the customary or standard system than it is to use the metric system. Using base-12 makes calculating for carpenters much easier because it divides into thirds and fourths easily and still divides into fifths with only one digit after the decimal point. For carpenters, woodworkers, and architects, the metric system doesn’t work well in the small-scale applications that they mostly deal with. The customary system works better for carpentry jobs especially on a tape measure or a ruler, which are the tools that are used for carpentry. A change to the metric system will heavily impact carpentry jobs because they will have to buy different or new tools (rules, tape measures, etc.) for measuring in the metric system, and reprogram their “thinking” to calculate in metrics. It will definitely change the way they communicate because metrics measurements are in millimeters, centimeters, and meters, rather than in inches, and