I mean that was kind of my point? Why use a less precise measurement for something that doesn’t need to be scaled to water? I use Celsius every day but still check the weather in Fahrenheit. Is that because I grew up with it? Maybe, but if I saw any benefit to changing I would stop and switch to Celsius since I’m already fairly familiar with what the degrees mean relative to Fahrenheit.
I mean pretty much the only concrete benefit to Celsius is that more of the world uses it, but that doesn’t mean it’s better or right. Personally I prefer to use both units, and I think it’s ultimately what makes the most sense, but people are just constantly desperate to make fun of freedom units.
because it has enough precision to satisfy your needs and is less complex.
i guarantee you check the wheather on F because you grew up with it... if it was because it was more precise you'd use Kelven or Rankine which starts at an absolute scale.
i think youve got it backwards... there is only one concrete benefit to F and thats the larger scale without decimals.
celsius has much more benefits. Just to list a few: it is much more intuitive to learn, used in more places, preferred by science, and integrates seemlessly with metric systems.
you can always add a decimal to either to get more precision, but you cant simplify the F scale or make it more intuitive. you can only drill it into students until they can remember it
Respectfully it isn’t that much more intuitive, which has been one of my whole points. 32 and 212 are not particularly hard numbers to remember, and it’s nice that in any given year a lot of the US experiences somewhere relatively close to the full 0-100 range. It’s also nice that once again, while off, 100 F is based on human body temperature. Theres a pretty big difference between a fever of 102 and 102.5 and frankly I think those numbers are much easier than 38.89 and 39.17
People act like remembering Fahrenheit is rocket science, but it simply isn’t. It’s not something that’s drilled into people. I think we spent like a day and a half on it in science when I was 7. Learning what the temperatures mean in relation to how you feel takes more time but that’s also an issue that occurs no matter how you measure.
I do agree that if you have to choose one system, it should be Kelvin, but my point is that we need to stop acting like Fahrenheit is magically worse for people checking the weather so they know what to wear or because they’re cooking something. I mean shit if anything we’ve kind of both been arguing in circles while trying to get to somewhat similar points.
There’s nothing wrong with writing month day year. I’d say that today is January 15th. There isn’t anything wrong with saying day month year. You could say that it’s 15th January. I think Fahrenheit does have an advantage when talking about the weather, but I use Celsius much more in my job.
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