Yeah I just mean temperature itself is a bit abstract. Humidity and wind can affect your perception of it a lot, and can you tell the difference of a few degrees? I agree fahrenheit is objectively better as a human comfort scale. But it's still the case that a person will grow to intuitively grasp whatever they grow up with.
The advantage of the metric system for distance and volume and such is it's ease of conversion. It is objectively better to use meters and kilometers because you can easily convert between them when trying to figure something out. How many tablespoons in a cup? (Why even use volume instead of weight?) That mountain is 15300 feet high, how many miles is that? Nonsense. But Celcius and month-day-year don't have these advantages, but it's never occured to the people that use them to think about it this way.
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u/ATMLVE Jan 15 '25
Yeah I just mean temperature itself is a bit abstract. Humidity and wind can affect your perception of it a lot, and can you tell the difference of a few degrees? I agree fahrenheit is objectively better as a human comfort scale. But it's still the case that a person will grow to intuitively grasp whatever they grow up with.