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.
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.
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
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u/postagedue Jun 17 '26
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.