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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    8 months ago

    I’m in the USA, and I certainly don’t use the imperial system exclusively — my (domestic) education was in metric (undergrad and grad school), and now I work at an American company and use metric exclusively.

    And yes, I get confused sometimes. Often I get time and currency confused, so if something is $1.59 I think it’s a penny shy of $2, for instance.