▲ | dspillett 7 months ago | |||||||||||||||||||
> Do [UK] people not weigh themselves in stones and pounds? Older people, usually yes. Younger people, more often that not, not. Even at 48 I use Kg for my own weight, but those only a half a decade older more routinely use stone/measurements. Though there is a sizable range of people who use one unit system by default but have a reasonable intuition of the other. Unlike some things, there are no legal mandates dictating which set of measures to use for this. Another difference in weight scales: we don't tend to work with just pounds when we use imperial measurements. When a US TV show gives a weight as, for example, “172 pounds”, many will need to do a little mental arithmetic (this may be subconsciously, not actively calculating but the process delaying understanding) to convert to X stone & Y pounds rather than naturally having an intuition of the weight from the single number. | ||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | 2ap 7 months ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
I'm a paediatrician. No parent has ever asked me for their baby's weight in kg - they are all pounds and ounces. So much so that I can do this niche conversion almost in my head, at least at the start of the day, as we weigh them in kg. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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