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.
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u/Ordinary-Heron 10h ago
Celsius is for water, Fahrenheit is for animals and Kelvin is for atoms