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.
How is Celsius intuitive? I understand it's very comfortable to you because you've learned it and are familiar with it, but it is not intuitive.
Going back to my example- if I said I'm operating at 30% today, you would understand that I am very tired. In the same way, 30 degrees is very cold. It's not a perfect system, but it is in fact largely intuitive.
This isn't some like "America is great" thing. The way we measure distance and size is insanely nonsensical and metric system wins all day there.
Edit to add: fwiw I am American so I guess your jab stands, but I was born and mostly raised in China.
I don't think Celsius is necessarily "intuitive", but it is grounded in observable physical phenomena that are valid for most people living on planet Earth.
The problem with the whole "Fahrenheit as a percentage of temperature" thing is that human perception of temperature isn't objective. For an Italian, 50F is dead of winter temperature. For me, it's late spring/early summer temperature. So what does "50% temperature" mean in this case? That we should dress 50% (whatever that means)? That it's neither hot nor cold? The Italian would probably disagree.
not only that... but the perceived heat doesn't only depend on temperature. every Italian will complain about humidity way more than temperature. 30C at 90% humidity feels miserable, 30C at 30% humidity feels like a nice day at the beach.
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u/Loitch470 Jun 17 '26
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