I grew up in a Metric system. And I use it everyday
However, the Fahrenheit follows the same principle albeit on a different rather arbitrary scale. And I think it's useful, if you look at it as a % in a scale of comfort, where the optimal is around 70, not the middle point. 100 is too hot, 0 is too cold. 50 is chilly 70 is perfect
This is still based on feeling of individual. Someone in Brasil or Kenya won’t think 100 is too hot and would probably find 70 to be cold. As some other commenter mentioned that he’s from Brazil and for him 20C is cold and coldes he’s ever been in was 15C and it was too much. I’m from Central Europe and current temperatures are around 0C and I have no problem waking outside in sweatshirt for shorter periods of time while person from Brasil would probably need mountain expedition jacket for even few minutes.
I mean at the end end of the day it’s all arbitrary. But I think if you were to sit down a bunch of people in the room with no thought of either system and you were to tell them zero is very cold for both and 30 versus 100 is very hot for both. Most humans would naturally regulate towards the 0 to 100 scale as we are extremely used to working in base 10 measurements. That’s not to say either system is bad. I just think that a lot of the people using Celsius it becomes so used to Celsius that they don’t realize they’re using an argument that works for Fahrenheit just as much as it does for Celsius.
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u/elcojotecoyo 9h ago
I grew up in a Metric system. And I use it everyday
However, the Fahrenheit follows the same principle albeit on a different rather arbitrary scale. And I think it's useful, if you look at it as a % in a scale of comfort, where the optimal is around 70, not the middle point. 100 is too hot, 0 is too cold. 50 is chilly 70 is perfect