Metric Mania. Share full article. Credit... Lars Tunbjork/Agence Vu/Aurora Photos. By John Allen Paulos. May 13, 2010; In the realm of public policy, we live in an age of numbers.

Metric mania and other measurement quirks. ... And small minds like mine, which don’t even know the name of OUR measurement system, can’t figure out the metric system to save our lives.

Elevating Physician-Patient Relationships in the Shadow of Metric Mania . by Benjamin Sundholm. Abstract. Today, medical and health institutions devote significant time and resources to documenting, ...

7UP also released products in half-liter and liter sizes amid metric mania, even using a campaign slogan called “follow the liter,” and published a 60-page guide for teachers on the metric system.

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Gliding through Michael Crichton’s Japan-bashing mystery novel, “Rising Sun,” the other day, early-on I came across the hard-bitten, Los Angeles cop-narrator describing a murder victim:“He ...

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“Do we expect too much from our data?” asks John Allen Paulos, as he cleverly critiques the benefits and biases inherent in the collection of data used in the formation of public policy. You ...