> It doesn't matter which measurement system is used: If you have grown up
> using it, it will feel "most natural" to you. To a person who has grown
> up using the metric system it feels the most natural.

Indeed, and a way to judge which one is "better" is to look at what 
happens when people are forced to change and stop using the old system 
completely.

In the UK in 1971 we changed from using a pound divided into 20 
shillings and a shilling in 12 pence to the new "metric" system of 100 
pence in a pound. Everyone was forced to make the change, you couldn't 
continue with the old system. Initially people complained and got 
confused, but very quickly afterwards everybody realised it was a far 
superior and easier to use system. *Nobody* I have ever spoken to (who 
was alive at the time) would want to go back to the old system and 
everyone generally thinks it was a good decision. At the time however I 
bet there were loads of people against it. People just don't like change.

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