As a young boy in the 1970s,Robert remembered that there was a push for public schools to teach children the metric system.The movement to adopt metric measurement was eventually abandoned in the United States.How did Robert explain this outcome?

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Path dependency refers to the idea that previous decisions and actions can limit or shape future possibilities. In the case of the metric system in the United States, the country had already established a system of customary units, and there was significant resistance to change. This resistance made it difficult to shift to the metric system, even though it is a more universal and standardized system. The country was already "locked into" the customary system, which led to the abandonment of the metric system movement.

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