"Michael probably gets out there a little more maybe from my side of things, he came up tome and spoketome and I think he's been doing itto most players, " Johnson said.
The GWPC representative who I spoke with (it took me about 45 seconds to make this call and get in touch with the right person there) told me that, had the Harvard researchers bothered to give him a call, he and others at the GWPC could have cleared up a lot of their obvious confusion about how the system works.
He spoke of distances in metres and kilometres, and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.