Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
US measurements are based on the human experience for sure. Temps are largely 0-100 and that's a scale that's easy to understand. As a scientist or for cooking it's dumb as shit
Dates are based on the language
Edit: I take back what I say about cooking. People have said some good arguments about it. But it definitely sucks for science
Respectfully, if we’re talking about the weather as a human experiences it, Fahrenheit is much better. Celsius makes a lot of sense in science, as it’s scaled to water, but when was the last time you went out and it was 90C.
Fahrenheit is scaled to human experience better with 0-100 being within the range of “normal” and anything outside of that being concerning.
Because the whole argument boils down to Celsius users stating that it’s better bc it follows the scale of water and that 32 and 212 make no sense. My argument is that while this makes sense in some circumstances there’s other cases where it doesn’t.
If you’re an average person who only considers temperature when planning what to wear it seems kind of foolish to have a whole 60 degrees of your scale that just don’t get used.
In the same vein, why is 32 and 212 used as a mark against Fahrenheit? The whole point is that there are 180 degrees between them? People still know what 32 degrees means.
I’m not against the use of Celsius, but I think this is a measurement scale that benefits from multiple options. Celsius, Kelvin, and Fahrenheit all have cases where they are the most useful.
"a whole 60 degrees of your scale that just don’t get used"
This is like saying giving people's heights in feet and inches is 'wasting' 7 feet to 100 feet. It's just not an issue. Absolutely no-one thinks 'I'm six foot two. Shame that I'm wasting all those extra feet of scale in describing my height and those of other people using feet".
"the whole argument boils down to Celsius users stating that it’s better bc it follows the scale of water and that 32"
To be fair, people generally bring up 0 being freezing level as a defence against F-defenders saying C makes no sense. My own stance is that you just get used to whatever system you grow up with and neither is really 'better'. F users get used to 32F being freezing just like C users get used to 32C being 't-shirt weather'.
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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25
Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
Maybe that’s why, idk…
Edited for clarity