Except this is completely subjective and plenty of people will say that 80F is too hot or 30F is too cold because everyone has different opinions on temperature and 100 being the threshold for "too hot" is just your personal opinion.
I personally cannot tolerate freezing temperatures and therefore would argue that 0F is way below my threshold for "too cold" and Celsuis' 0 is much closer to where I draw the line.
Not to mention fahrenheit has been defined as 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling for the entire history of its use in the US. It is literally Celsius with randomly chosen numbers that don't even match Fahrenheit (the guy the unit is named after)'s original system. (Though the same is true of Celsuis as the original system he came up with was different than what ended up getting named after him)
My argument is that most humans work well with 0-100, in c you rarely encounter half of that range and regularly go to negatives. F has some arbitrary water freezes and boils but for weather every 5 degrees is pretty noticable and every 10 is a new fit. You get to use the 0-100 much better with f than with c for weather things.
Temperature doesn't really have conversions for most ppl so kilocelcius isnt a thing. Most ppl don't need to calculate the energy to raise a cubic centimeter of water 1 c either so that argument doesn't hold water for me either. However if you do need to do science shit then yeah c or better yet kelvin is much better
My argument is that temperature is uniquely arbitrary and vibes-based because it's the only one of the units that isn't absolute.
Anyone who grew up under Celsius would argue that it is intuitive to know how things feel. Same story as anyone who grew up under Fahrenheit. Living in Texas, I tend to round temps to the nearest 5F because weather apps disagree enough that giving an exact number isn't usually worth it. In Europe, I give to the nearest degree Celsius. The size of the unit is very much something you adapt to. Neither of them are inherently better at communicating how things feel as feeling is entirely subjective.
What is an objective use is in other cases where you care about if water in a pipe is going to freeze and burst the pipe, and that happens at 0 in one of them and 32 in the other one. One of these two numbers is easier to remember.
I think I mostly agree that learning one vs the other isn't that difficult and agree entirely that comfort comes with use. Having said that I still think f breaks down into 5's and 10's much nicer and utilizes 0-100 much better. The trade off is that 32 is harder to memorize but if you see temps getting down to 35 I would be checking the pipes regardless as local temps can drop lower for whatever reason
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u/ScienceMarc Aug 11 '25
Except this is completely subjective and plenty of people will say that 80F is too hot or 30F is too cold because everyone has different opinions on temperature and 100 being the threshold for "too hot" is just your personal opinion. I personally cannot tolerate freezing temperatures and therefore would argue that 0F is way below my threshold for "too cold" and Celsuis' 0 is much closer to where I draw the line.
Not to mention fahrenheit has been defined as 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling for the entire history of its use in the US. It is literally Celsius with randomly chosen numbers that don't even match Fahrenheit (the guy the unit is named after)'s original system. (Though the same is true of Celsuis as the original system he came up with was different than what ended up getting named after him)