[TheGhostOfBoris]

Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.

[Mountain_Skies]

It's data about the US, where such units are the default.

[TheGhostOfBoris]

> It's data about the US

Posted on the internet with a worldwide audience. (Including this HN audience of engineers and scientists).

> where such units are the default.

All the more baffling!

[yakak]

The article and even the source article are like reading a research paper about beehives written for bee dancers.

Meters? Space per inhabitant? Irrelevant to your next hive where water should only be .5 seconds of beeswagger dance away!

[pleb_nz]

But the audience is global...

And even in the US most of science and the engineering world now use the metric system. Imperial is largely just a public facing/public consumption unit of measure now.

[Wobble4978]

"it's data about the US, where such units are the default."

You change units depending on what the data is about. Thats wild

But what if your data is about the US AND UK? What do you do then ?