Where do the difficulties Americans have with quantified elements and timescale come from?
it seems an overproportional number of Americans have troubles developing a concrete understanding what an adequate timeline for the consideration of a given phenomenon is - whether it is about history, physics, etc.
Similarly an overproportional number have troubles understanding scales, quantities, averages, etc.
Is life in the US less informed by objective numbers and more by subjective perceptions (much, little, few, etc.) ?
As a rule of thumb I prefer indicating a quantity in a given unit rather than providing my perception of the numerical element.
I was wondering whether the multiple units in the imperial system make it harder to see a continuity between different scales and relate one thing to another. Canadian do not seem so affected by this problem although they partly share the same culture. Any thoughts?
Maybe the uneducated people in the US (as opposed to other place) do not perceive their lack of education that much? or do not see it as a problem? (in my place, uneducated people tend to know that they are uneducated).