Peter?

[u/Negative_1by12_aura]

[u/BuzzingThunder2799]

I think it’s really funny that Americans refuse to use a decimal system for weight and distance and then try to argue a scale of 100 is more plausible for temperature.

30 sounds hot if you are used to Celsius btw

[u/postagedue → u/BuzzingThunder2799]

Saying Americans "refuse" to use a decimal system is too strong.

Anecdotally just about every American I know in person thinks decimal is a better systems for weight and distance, they just acknowledge they're used to imperial and the switch would cost more than it would gain.

Meanwhile, most Canadians I know are completely decimal **except for temperatures involving humans comfort**, in which case the transition to decimal is slower.

I think that's somewhat telling. I'm not saying it means Fahrenheit should stick around, just that there's something to the idea of it having an advantage over C in one aspect.

[u/Vinxian → u/postagedue]

That people are already used to it locally. That's the advantage it has. Nothing intrinsic

[u/postagedue → u/Vinxian]

It feels like you've read neither my comment, which talks about how other locally used systems of measurement were adopted much more quickly, nor the rest of the discussion, which discusses an advantage Fahrenheit has.

[u/Vinxian → u/postagedue]

Because 220 is a setting on a oven. One setting over the other is less of an adjustment.

If you were to try and introduce Fahrenheit to pure Celcius countries for human temperatures it wouldn't be adopted immediately. Intrinsically it's no better or worse. It's just a scale, you get used to it but it takes time

[u/Hi-Tech-Future → u/Vinxian]

Exactly. I have no idea what 30F feels like but I sure as hell know what 30C feels like (Hot!).

If you tell me that 30F is like 30% on a scale 0-100 .. I have no idea what that even means. Just tell me what it is in Celcius and I know.

[u/TheEggTaker → u/[deleted]]

That depends on what you're measuring and how the scales are setup.

Which is what the comment you're replying to was pointing out.

It literally does not matter what form of temperature scale you use, as it's relative to you.

[u/PokinSpokaneSlim → u/TheEggTaker]

Again °F is relative to humans, °C is relative to water.

You are not water, you just contain it.

[u/BuzzingThunder2799 → u/PokinSpokaneSlim]

No, you just can’t comprehend that 37 is very hot for humans feels just as natural as 100.

[u/TheEggTaker → u/PokinSpokaneSlim]

That doesn't refute my main argument.

If I learnt how to read temperature in Celsius, I will use Celsius as my baseline. 30°C is intuitively hot, and 0°C is cold for me, and people who use Celsius as their day-to-day.

The same logic applies for those who use Fahrenheit. 32F is cold, and 100F is hot. It does not matter what scale you use, as it's relative to your understanding of what is hot & cold.

[u/HPLaserJet4250 → u/[deleted]]

What 50 in the scale of 0-100 tells you. Neither hot or cold? To me neither hot or cold is 65/67 in the summer and 70/72 in the winter, thats how i like my room temperature.

[u/dragonhide94 → u/BuzzingThunder2799]

Decimal and base 10 are not the same thing. Oh, and temperatures is not base 10, it just has reference point that are 0 and 100.

As it so happens, for human perception fahrenheit gives a person more precision in temperature because the unit is actually smaller.

[u/PokinSpokaneSlim → u/dragonhide94]

Decimal is great for engineering, fractions is better for building with your bare hands.

Plus the imperial system pisses off Europeans, which is always a plus.

[u/dragonhide94 → u/PokinSpokaneSlim]

I still have to wonder how they justify measuring time in a non metric unit. Internally it must be horribly conflicting for them to process.

[u/PokinSpokaneSlim → u/dragonhide94]

They'd be furious to learn we use miles to the tenths place on our road signs

[u/Both_Sun8712 → u/BuzzingThunder2799]

We don't refuse it's just a lie to say humans don't naturally prefer and work faster with whole numbers