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 notion that choices made in the past can limit present and future decisions. In this case, the United States had already established customary units of measurement, and the cost and effort of changing to the metric system may have been too great. Therefore, the country stayed with its current system, despite the push to adopt the metric system in the past.

As a Young Boy in the 1970s, Robert Remembered That