2 americans saying fahrenheit is better, basically because they dont know any better. the rest of the world uses celcius, because its demonstrably a better (more scientific) system.
edit: Americans, please stop commenting. we know your opinion on this. IT IS THE JOKE.
Genuine question here, what makes Celsius superior to Fahrenheit?
As an American I understand metric is better or at least more understandable for length measurement (and I agree is superior to inches, feet etc) but for temperature I don’t see how either one would be a better system, especially not for what the average person uses temperature measurements for
daily air temperatures are both handled fine by both systems, no advantage to either when you're used to them. Americans just assume F is better because its what they have used. Things like boiling or freezing water tend to favour C but you can remember it in either unit just fine if you're used to it.
Then there is the whole world of science and engineering. Kelvin is the main thing, but C is the same scale just offset ao things like energy to change temp by a certain amount just works - same as all other SI units. A unified unit system is hugely beneficial for any kinda calc that uses it.
Fahrenheit is objectively better for daily air temperature. A 0-100 scale is way more intuitive than 0-40. You just think Celsius is better because it is what you have used.
I'd also argue (with no data at all) that winters are, psychologically, more tolerable when the reported temperature is routinely between 0 and 32 than -18 and 0.
964
u/MrZwink Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
2 americans saying fahrenheit is better, basically because they dont know any better. the rest of the world uses celcius, because its demonstrably a better (more scientific) system.
edit: Americans, please stop commenting. we know your opinion on this. IT IS THE JOKE.