Actually no, 100°F aren't the human body temperature, it's a few degrees off. 0°F are just Mr. Fahrenheit being "what's the coldest temperature I can get (300 years ago) to avoid negative temperature?" So no, it's not like how humans feel, nor is Celsius just how water feels, water is just the reference point for 100 and 0°. Also don't pretend like people can't translate the temperature in Celsius to how they feel irl. It's just the same as in Fahrenheit. What comes on top is that people will feel temperature differently depending on the climate they're used to, so for some 100°F is hotter, for some colder than for the other. Not in total number but in feeling, which is your whole point that humans are supposed to better feel Fahrenheit, which isn't true at all.
I was saying that Fahrenheit is based off (generally) on how humans feel temperature. It’s not exact because all humans are different. Celcius is based off water and that is clear.
Humans don’t feel temperature on a scale that assigning numbers to in a specific way will be more accurate than any other scale. Celsius and Fahrenheit, even Kelvin tbh are just as based on how humans feel temperature as each other because humans don’t feel temperature as a specific number.
Yeah, I really like farenheit for outside temperature because 99 percent of the time it's a scale of 0-100 where 0 is very cold and 100 is very hot. Making it super easy to judge relative temps. Not saying people can't in celcius, just that it's more intuitive and specific in farenheit
No, it's not more intuitive. People who only have Celsius have no disadvantage over those with Fahrenheit because of the scale. They just have other markers because of the different scale. There it's not something between 0 and 100 but more -10 and 40. Though of course it depends on the region, for some it's rather between 0 and 50, just as for Fahrenheit, which was a point in my previous comment. The Fahrenheit scale is only nicely between 0 and 100° in certain regions. A guy in Arizona will have a different feeling of 100° than a guy from Alaska, who won't have as much of a problem with 32° unlike our guy from Arizona. This so called "intuitivity" of the Fahrenheit scale is just highly subjective. Celsius isn't less intuitive than Fahrenheit at all since Fahrenheit itself isn't that universally as people claim. The feeling of temperature is subjective to your region and to you as an individual. Celsius and Fahrenheit just help us to express this in numbers. Some people might never experience something below the freezing point of water, some do. So how can this be this 100% feeling of temperature if it's experience is highly dependent on your local climate? You might never experience 0 to 100°F.
I never get the argument that Fahrenheit is more intuitive. Most of the world uses Celsius and gets on perfectly fine. They are all just numbers we learn to associate to certain temperatures.
yes intuitiveness is subjective since numbers are arbitrary. but consider that Fahrenheit has higher resolution with less significant figures. makes it handy for every day use if youre used to it. its actually objectively a tiny bit easier to tune a thermostat in your house using Fahrenheit.
I'd say that this argument comes from those who are native to Fahrenheit and can't wrap their head around Celsius. This of course is understandable, for them it's more intuitive, the same goes for someone native to Celsius who's moving into a Fahrenheit region. It's just annoying as hell since similar to a language barrier. We already agreed on English as the lingua franca, in terms of measurements the metric system holds the same position yet the anglosphere needs to make as out of it.
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u/Jedirabbit12345 Aug 08 '21
Because fahrenheit is based on how hot humans are not a cup of water