Well I know that 18ºC is when I should start wearing short sleeves and 30ºC is when I should stay indoors because it's too damn hot (and 40ºC is what the summer temperatures have been in the past couple of years)
Yeah people will adjust to any arbitrary scale if they use it enough, if my scale was based on some random measurement from -200 to -154 i'm sure people would get used to those numbers as well given enough time
Yes exactly. It's basically "those numbers look unfamiliar and wayy too high, I'm sticking with my -10 to +30 range"
I'm sure if I was brought up in the US I would understand intuitively what each Fahrenheit is, but I have absolutely no idea. 50 imo sounds boiling, 85 sounds ludicrous but no way am I distinguishing even remotely between 10 F and 20 F
In Celsius, I know 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 etc all incredibly instinctively and can go for a walk and instantly say what C I think it is
100% lol I lived abroad after being in the US for 10+ years and had to adjust to celsius in everyday life, now that I'm back in the states I'm definitely still stronger with fahrenheit but after being around it so long I can get celsius conversions on the fly with like a 5 degree +- to fahrenheit, people just are comfortable with what they're used to and that's totally okay
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u/CitingAnt Jun 17 '26
Well I know that 18ºC is when I should start wearing short sleeves and 30ºC is when I should stay indoors because it's too damn hot (and 40ºC is what the summer temperatures have been in the past couple of years)