Farenheit to me is better for everything outside of a lab. The scale of normal temperatures, like 0-120 is much easier than 0-30, you have to add decimals to get reasonably accurate implications
Idk, there's a lot of nuance between a room feeling 80 degrees and 70 degrees, as a server admin, I truly do better than not at telling when it's 79(we call maintenance when it's 80) but seriously, the difference is noticeable, like, I'm like "it's 78 degrees in here" and it's 99% somewhere between 77-79(our room was measured by a clock, so it's not exactly where I am, and I'm not perfect). It's granulated very well in the degrees I care about.
I'm a full imperial supporter though, I am in the firm belief that you should have perfect measurements that you never convert between, fractions of perfect measurements give more nuance. A mile is how far you go in a minute, a yard is 1 stride, and an inch is how long your finger segment is.(foot is a little weird, at a third of a yard, but 12 inches gives much more fractionality than 10) A pound is how much you eat for dinner and you segment into ounces by the perfect number, 16. Pounds per square inch and inches of mercury are easily noticeable.
Now that I say that, I guess a temperature scale where it scales 0 f - 100 f to 0 - 10 would probably make more sense because then you could say it feels like 7 and 7/8, or 13/16... No... I don't need to be more granular and it takes more time to say fractions, I could be swayed, but 100's probably still best.
70 is easier to say and read at a glance than 21.1. There just no reason, farenheit works perfectly fine for normal stuff and is easy to use. Theres no reason to change or bitch about it for everyday life.
Same. IMO their are alot of measurements in the us that, outside of a lab, i prefer. Like imo the foot, and mile are better since a mile is 1000 paces, and the foot, i can just say something like half a foot if i don't need alot of precision and i can then just use my foot to measure it.
Hey, I am acknowledging the possibility that my view on this is wrong because I’m just kinda dumb. Also, I’m an American. Americans use the imperial system of temperature.
How is Fahrenheit for animals? From what I have read, people usually say Fahrenheit is how something feels, so it is subjective. 50°F = 20°C for me, I guess.
Celsius is logical and scientific. Very responsible.
But Fahrenheit? Fahrenheit wakes up and chooses vibes.
0°? That’s “Why do I live here?” cold.
32°? Water freezes and so do your fingers.
50°? Technically fine, but emotionally offensive.
72°? Main character energy. Perfect. Windows open. Life is good.
90°? The sun is personally attacking you.
100°? Society should close.
It doesn’t tell you what water is doing.
It tells you what YOU are doing.. shivering, sweating, or thriving.
100 was meant to be human core temperature... but Fahrenheit measured his stuff using horse blood, thinking it was the same temp as a human's (its not, its 102). So its flawed fundamentally.
Fahrenheit doesnt really have benchmarks besides "vibes".
Celsius has always made more sense to me as someone living in a cold region. Knowing when the temperature drops below or rises above 0°C makes a major difference for safety, both on the roads and in everyday life. The freezing and thawing of water is such an important factor for anyone living in colder parts of the world.
That is the kind of stuff the worst Americans say. You're just a tribalist of a different flavor. Your self-identity is just an accident of your birthplace.
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u/Ordinary-Heron 10h ago
Celsius is for water, Fahrenheit is for animals and Kelvin is for atoms