NBS Special Publication, Issue 345The Bureau, 1971 |
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... Less than 20 percent were familiar with either the relationships within the metric system or the relationships of metric measures to measures in the current system . Much resistance to con- version seems to stem from this lack of ...
... Less than 20 percent were familiar with either the relationships within the metric system or the relationships of metric measures to measures in the current system . Much resistance to con- version seems to stem from this lack of ...
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... less than a college degree . However , in most of the subgroups in which significance was wanting , sample size was small and therefore statistical tests were unreliable . An investigation was made of the relationship between a ...
... less than a college degree . However , in most of the subgroups in which significance was wanting , sample size was small and therefore statistical tests were unreliable . An investigation was made of the relationship between a ...
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... less than a high school degree expressed op- position to the change . Differences in the index among persons of different age and sex were sig- nificant , although the amount of variation which was accounted for by these variables was ...
... less than a high school degree expressed op- position to the change . Differences in the index among persons of different age and sex were sig- nificant , although the amount of variation which was accounted for by these variables was ...
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... less than 30 percent of respondents , the three statements of opinions favoring conversion elicited more positive attitudes . Thirty - four percent supported the proposition that " the United States should make the change because the ...
... less than 30 percent of respondents , the three statements of opinions favoring conversion elicited more positive attitudes . Thirty - four percent supported the proposition that " the United States should make the change because the ...
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... less than 20 percent of the respondents . There were hardly any systematic differences in the frequency of mention of these methods among demographic subgroups . However , persons knowledgeable about metric measures and those with more ...
... less than 20 percent of the respondents . There were hardly any systematic differences in the frequency of mention of these methods among demographic subgroups . However , persons knowledgeable about metric measures and those with more ...
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