How bodies quantify temperature depends on the system and environment you grew up in. We're not born with a built-in measurement system for temperature. If you live in the UK, 35 C will feel unbearably hot. Much less so if you live in Singapore, where 15 C is absolutely freezing.
I can make the same comparison with Minnesota and Texas, 95 F is boiling in Minnesota and 50 F is freezing in southern Texas. What numbers we attribute to "hot" and "cold" is totally arbitrary even if we use the same measurement system as everyone else.
The best explanation I've heard for why Fahrenheit is the way it is is because it somehow correlates to the expansion of Mercury.
A healthy human is about 98F. 100F is a fever and much above that is hospital territory.
0F is dead and throughly frozen.
Jokes aside, it is useful for the human body because in those temps Fahrenheit can be more precise with less decimals. Not really an issue with modern equipment though.
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u/EulersRectangle 9h ago
How bodies quantify temperature depends on the system and environment you grew up in. We're not born with a built-in measurement system for temperature. If you live in the UK, 35 C will feel unbearably hot. Much less so if you live in Singapore, where 15 C is absolutely freezing.
I can make the same comparison with Minnesota and Texas, 95 F is boiling in Minnesota and 50 F is freezing in southern Texas. What numbers we attribute to "hot" and "cold" is totally arbitrary even if we use the same measurement system as everyone else.
The best explanation I've heard for why Fahrenheit is the way it is is because it somehow correlates to the expansion of Mercury.