Not listing alternate units second, not converted on screen, not called “freedom units” and not hiding behind the excuse of “most our audience is in the US”
Mostly thinking YT channels like Wendover, Bluejay, sometimes Practical Engineering and even some European ones like TLDR News
The difference between a meter and yard is less than that of a measured vs “eyeballed” yard and everybody knows what 0 C and 100 C are so the learning curve is also massively (by at least 50 kg) exaggerated
@JackLSauce
As a non-American I don’t really care as long as they include metric.
My pet hate is news outlets using US geography to make size comparisons like “that’s an area as big as the size of downtown Miami”.
I assume every country has those: In Germany, Saarland (a small federal state), soccer fields, VW Golf and public pools are regularly used as size comparisons, assuming that everyone knows how large they are.
In New Zealand we have a joke that everything is in blocks of cheese (1kg is the standard cheese size).
When it’s international news I would like them to at least state the square km instead of only talking about some random landmark though.
The only standards converter that matters… El Reg If you know, you know. If you don’t you can always learn :)