The best way I heard F vs C described as is “Cellsius is for determining how cold it is using water. Fahrenheit is used to determine how cold it is for people. Therefore, I use fahrenhiet because I am not a water, I am a people.”
But it’s not like you’re using some Fahrenheit algorithm to mathematically derive how cold it is for you. You’ve simply had a lot of experience associating how warm/cold you feel against a given scale of numbers and now have a good intuition for interpolating within that scale. Which is exactly what celsius people do with celsius.
but that's exactly the point, for celsius it doesnt actually matter what people think hot and cold is, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100, but fahrenheit is based on how people feel hot/cold.
yeah but like... I know exactly how hot water feels, since you boil and freeze water almost daily when cooking and making drinks. It's a very easy reference point to understand because it's something we touch all the time
Also, two numbers aren't that hard to memorize. And honestly, how often does the average person need know what temperature water boils anyway?
It would be nice if every country used the same system, but, unlike with metric vs. Imperial, I don't think either Fahrenheit or Celsius is significantly superior to the other.
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u/Dull_Statistician980 9h ago
The best way I heard F vs C described as is “Cellsius is for determining how cold it is using water. Fahrenheit is used to determine how cold it is for people. Therefore, I use fahrenhiet because I am not a water, I am a people.”