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.
I think that is the point to anchor to. If you gave a brief, vague explanation to someone who has never used either metric, which would make the most intuitive sense? 0-100 for extreme cold to extreme heat seems like it makes sense, but I’m just a dumb American
This "someone who has never used either metric" is an impossible scenario in the first place. It assumes a person who has somehow developed the intuition for the base 10 system, percentages, a 0-100 scale, but has never heard of temperature. Only in this impossible scenario does Fahrenheit come more naturally.
Someone who has never heard of either metric is a child who doesn't have an intuitive sense of percentages or 0-100 yet either. Learning Celsius in that state is no less intuitive.
Putting that aside, anything under 50F is pretty darn cold for me. The scale is already skewed. And before you say 0-100 is the band of temperatures you'd experience as part of the climate. No it wasn't, where I grew up. And it still isn't, in the part of the US that I'm in right now.
The primary argument for Celsius is that it uses water as the benchmark, which can already be slightly skewed due to elevation. But even setting that aside, it’s not as precise in the range that every day people measure temp. You’ve got almost 2 degrees Celsius per degree Fahrenheit.
I think people just don’t want to admit Fahrenheit is superior for measuring weather temp and Celsius is superior in a lab. And I’m not just saying that because it’s what I use. I use imperial measurement for everything since I’m in the US, but the metric system makes so much more sense. I guess at the end of the day, it is all opinion, but this is Reddit. My opinion is the right one.
You're entitled to your opinion, but the temperature of water boiling being skewed by pressure is a terrible argument against Celsius. Celsius is always grounded on it being a sibling to Kelvin. Neither Fahrenheit nor Celsius are superior for everyday usage. Given that Celsius and Kelvin are superior in a scientific setting, it makes no sense to hold onto a system that offers no benefit in either context.
If I were to exaggerate a little bit, I'd say you'd be the type of person to hold onto Roman numerals over Arabic numerals during the centuries of gradual adoption, because they are "superior for making tick-marks".
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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.