> Do [UK] people not weigh themselves in stones and pounds?Older people, usually yes.
Younger people, more often that not, not. Even at 48 I use Kg for my own weight, but those only a half a decade older more routinely use stone/measurements.
Though there is a sizable range of people who use one unit system by default but have a reasonable intuition of the other.
Unlike some things, there are no legal mandates dictating which set of measures to use for this.
Another difference in weight scales: we don't tend to work with just pounds when we use imperial measurements. When a US TV show gives a weight as, for example, “172 pounds”, many will need to do a little mental arithmetic (this may be subconsciously, not actively calculating but the process delaying understanding) to convert to X stone & Y pounds rather than naturally having an intuition of the weight from the single number.
Older people, usually yes.
Younger people, more often that not, not. Even at 48 I use Kg for my own weight, but those only a half a decade older more routinely use stone/measurements.
Though there is a sizable range of people who use one unit system by default but have a reasonable intuition of the other.
Unlike some things, there are no legal mandates dictating which set of measures to use for this.
Another difference in weight scales: we don't tend to work with just pounds when we use imperial measurements. When a US TV show gives a weight as, for example, “172 pounds”, many will need to do a little mental arithmetic (this may be subconsciously, not actively calculating but the process delaying understanding) to convert to X stone & Y pounds rather than naturally having an intuition of the weight from the single number.