Reddit, what is your biggest pet peeve that would be gone if more people had bas...
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Reddit, what is your biggest pet peeve that would be gone if more people had basic scientific literacy?
I don't like when:
The narrator in a car commercial sounds-out "em-pee-aich". Abbreviating like that is really only helpful when you are writing.
People don't understand prefixes. 3,000 mAh is just 3 Ah. Sometimes this makes sense when comparing different values, but I think many people just start thinking of the abbreviation they use most as the unit. Like 5000 kilos or 10,000 MW.
I also don't like to compound units we use instead of the actual unit. Amp-hours, KiloWatt-hours. That's just Watts and Joules (with conversion factors).
Finally, when the brightness of an LED bulb is described by how much power it would use if it was an incandescent bulb. 60W equivalent!