Why do we not use the metric system in the United States?
So it's a very sensible question to ask why Americans don't convert. Fortunately, this isn't too hard to look up. There is a technical sense in which we do use the metric system. All US units are defined in terms of metric ones, so that for example one inch is defined to be exactly 2.54 centimeters.
Why hasn't the United States switched to the metric system? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-the-United-States-switched-to-the-metric-system
Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States
In 1968 Congress authorized the U.S. Metric Study, a three-year study of systems of measurement in the United States, with emphasis on the feasibility of metrication.
Why hasn't the U.S. adopted the metric system? | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/why-hasnt-us-adopted-metric-system
Jun 14, 2016 - While most nations use the metric system—those units of decimals that are universally employed in science—the U.S. still clings to pounds, ...Why the Metric System Hasn't Failed in the U.S. - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/...metric-system...us/487040/
Jun 16, 2016 - Pearl will gladly send anyone his 31-page document, “SI: An Educational Overview For Americans,” which explains that the Metric Act of 1866 legalized the use of the metric system for weights 
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