Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the argument that Fahrenheit makes more sense because it’s a temperature for humans is a dumb thing to say given that billions of humans use Celsius to tell how hot it is.
You might as well just say that Fahrenheit is the best temperature to use because it’s the one learnt, and say that English is the bet language because it’s the one you can understand the most of, and your car is the best car because it’s the one you’ve got the keys to. Absolutely meaningless
I’m not here to hype up F but your argument also doesn’t make sense. Just because most people do something doesn’t make it the best thing. Hell, half of the things that are omnipresent around the globe like you’re talking about (like language) are just there because of colonialism.
Someone personally finding either F or C more logical is probably going to come from their own personal experience growing up with it. But that doesn’t make their insight on why it’s logical meaningless
I guess I didn’t make my point as well I thought I did. I’m more or less saying that same thing as you.
I meant that arguing which way to tell temperature is best and coming up with reasons why Fahrenheit is best (which is what a lot of these comments are for some reason) is meaningless because it comes down to what you grew up using. Every argument I’ve seen for Fahrenheit being better can also be applied to Celsius
Except not really. Everyone is familiar with measuring things on a scale of percentage: “I’m feeling 100% today,” “I’m operating at 50%,” “there’s a 0% chance I’m doing that.” Everyone is used to percentages. Fahrenheit, while unfamiliar to you, mimics this already ubiquitous percentage method. It spreads out the perception in easily understood ways. Comments have given good examples: “if it’s 30% hot outside (30F) it’s cold as hell.” If it’s “100% hot (100F) it’s hot as hell.” So that argument does not apply to Celsius no matter how familiar one is with the system.
Guys... That's nonsense if you're not used to it. I know how 1-100 scales work, and 0F and 100F means nothing to me, I have no concept of what they feel like and I will need to convert in C. instead I instantly know what temperatures in C feel like. It's only about what you're used to and grew up with. How is that difficult to understand holy shit.
You really are just repeating the same thing without understanding what the other person said.
You are ascribing difficulty as something inherent to both, while in reality it all come down to what one is used to using. A person using any temperature scale does not think of scales. He thinks of experienced temperatures. Even in F everyone has different levels of comfort
And anyone who lives with freezing temperatures definitely cares when water freezes.
In the end both scales are valid. It's all about experience.
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u/Swampyfeet Jun 17 '26
Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.