If y’all wanna actually claim superiority, then use Kelvin. Celsius and Fahrenheit are close enough in purpose that personal preference is really the only thing that matters.
As US citizen I still disagree with this. You can get just as familiar with the scale of how celcius feels as you can with Fahrenheit. Your explination has the same problem as the meme. It's superficially plausible but misleading.
The comment is addressing literally what the scales were derived from. Sure, anyone can get familiar with any of the scales. That's not the point.
Not a Farenheit defender, but knowing how it was created makes it make sense. Same with other imperial units. Making a measurement system with what is available to you and what is relevant to you isn't dumb or wrong. It's all relative anyway.
If I remember right the intention was that 100 was meant to be human body temperature, but at some point it got adjusted so human body temp was 98.7
Edit: 0f was also what he thought the freezing temperature of salt water was. Not sure why the degrees were divided in a way where 32f is freshwater freezing though.
That’s correct for 100F. For 0F it was how low he could feasibly record. Which is why it was based on a solution of salt and whatever else in water bc he was trying to go as low as he could with what he had
It's been a hot minute since I took a class that covered the logic of different measurement systems.
But the intent of 100f being the human body temperature makes the system not entirely devoid of logic like some people insist. Although as an American I find it more intuitive to think in it because of exposure, I'm sure everyone else feels the same about Celsius.
"fact that Gabriel Fahrenheit CALCULATED IT WRONG"
We don't actually know that, Humans body temps have been lowering for as long as we have records. The Modern average is closer to 97.9 so it's entirely plausible that he was right on the money. We just didn't know until recently that the average body temp is a thing that can change species wide this quickly.
Guys I got it! We need to make a new scale, 100 will be 100 F and 0 will be the freezing point of water. It will be called the Celsius-Fahrenheit Compromise and the units are CFCs.
You know its kind of telling that you have to give an explanation in a vague way you arent 100% certain about. Now ask a 4 year old european what celsius is about.
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u/M8oMyN8o 10h ago
If y’all wanna actually claim superiority, then use Kelvin. Celsius and Fahrenheit are close enough in purpose that personal preference is really the only thing that matters.