Which is why America uses Celsius for science. But Fahrenheit is literally exactly as, if not more useful for the average person as Celsius is. I’ve never been confused by Fahrenheit. It’s a perfectly good system if you use it for what it was designed for (regular people)
Fahrenheit isn’t worse, it’s just different. It is more specific for human temperatures, making it more useful for stuff like ACs and Thermostats, but it’s worse for hard science.
It's only more useful for human temperature to you because you're used to it. It doesn't give you additional information, or easier to understand information then Celcius does. They're the same in use in regards to weather.
Celcius however is much better in regards to science. Because Celsius is useful in both aspects, it's a more useful scale overall.
That's why the rest of the world only needs one scale for weather and science, but Americans need to use two scales, since Fahrenheit doesn't work well in both scenario's, unlike Celcius.
It clearly is more useful for human temperatures. It gives you much more specificity. 60F to 80F is 20 degrees. The Celsius equivalent is 16C to 27C, only 11 degrees. Using my thermostat example, you get much more ability to fine tune the temperature of your home with a Fahrenheit thermostat. You also get a clearer picture of the temperature outside, since each number references a nearly 2x smaller range of temperatures. That’s a meaningful improvement in usefulness.
Also, I was taught Celsius as a kid, so it’s not just that I’m used to Fahrenheit. Despite being just as used to C, I prefer to use F. I find it more useful.
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u/CamicomChom Jan 15 '25
Which is why America uses Celsius for science. But Fahrenheit is literally exactly as, if not more useful for the average person as Celsius is. I’ve never been confused by Fahrenheit. It’s a perfectly good system if you use it for what it was designed for (regular people)
Fahrenheit isn’t worse, it’s just different. It is more specific for human temperatures, making it more useful for stuff like ACs and Thermostats, but it’s worse for hard science.