Metrics: mismeasuring consumer demand. (converting to the metric system)

From: Consumers' Research Magazine | Date: February 1, 1994| Author: Chapman, Michael | Copyright information

Is the Department of Justice,. the top governmental agency responsible for law enforcement. violating the law? Apparently, yes. The law in question concerns the use of the metric system of weight and measure as enacted by the Metric Conversion Act of'1975 and amended in the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. This amendment on metric usage (Public Law 100-418, Section 5164) "declares that the policy of the nation is to designate the metric system as the preferred system ...

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