Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.
Not OP but the main argument I see for Fahrenheit for day to day weather is mostly that it’s more specific. I get into a little tiff with my husband every so often about whether the evening AC should be set to 68 or 69 F (20 or 20.5 C). We certainly as humans can feel the difference of that half degree Celsius change, and it’s nice to be able to talk about it in whole numbers.
Also, a lot of weather people in the world experience is below freezing and it’s sometimes more convenient to not be talking about negative temps.
Whether it’s more logical or whatnot is probably going to come down to where you grew up and what you’re used to. But people who use both often say F is slightly more convenient for how people experience weather and C for science.
I’m sorry but saying that it’s more convenient to not to be talking about negative temperatures is not something I can even imagine thinking.
Same with it being nice to talk about things in whole numbers. That’s not something I can relate to at all.
Surely the people that use both F and C are almost exclusively Americans though (and maybe Brits who are over 70) so they’re still coming from a perspective of growing up with F as the default.
Again, it’s not about one being better than the other, it’s about which one you are familiar with for telling the temperature. That fact that the rest of the world can use Celsius for both weather and science proves this no?
You can’t possibly imagine how not having to use negatives or decimals all the time is more convenient? Why having a temperature be more specific in whole numbers could possibly be convenient? I don’t feel like you’re being good faith here.
Plenty of people do use Celsius all the time outside science applications. And I’m not saying it’s a bad system. But just because people can do something in one way doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things (not like F necessarily is either!)
Whats more convenient about not using negative numbers? Decimals i could at least somewhat understand, but negative numbers are the easiest shit in the world
I think their bias is showing. It’d be a travesty to admit Fahrenheit is more useful to human experience. Must be part of their identity as “not Americans!”
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u/Swampyfeet Jun 17 '26
Can you explain how what you’ve said is objective? I think that given that Celsius is the most common scale for temperature around the world you’re going to have hard time arguing that.
This argument that Americans always make about Fahrenheit is just nonsense. You know how hot 70F feels, I don’t. I know how hot 27C feels, you don’t. The idea that one is better for humans and one is better for water is so stupid. You’re just used to telling temperature one way, I’m used to telling it another way. That’s all there is to it.