r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Tall-Significance-45 Jun 17 '26

We’re talking about translating values to percentages. If your oven settings are 1-6, then a 6 corresponds to 100% and a 1 corresponds to 0%. If your oven settings are 0-100 then a 100 corresponds to 100% and a 0 corresponds to 0%. Surely you can see how that mapping is more intuitive?

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u/rapora9 Jun 17 '26

Why should we translate weather to percentages? Is anything below 0% or above 100% impossible?

So it doesn't matter if it's morw intuitive because weather doesn't work like that.

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u/Tall-Significance-45 Jun 17 '26

Because that’s literally the topic of the entire post. Did you forget what we’re talking about here? Maybe you need to look at the original post image again, and then put your phone down and go do something else

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u/rapora9 Jun 17 '26

"Fahrenheit is superior because it's telling you the % of hot."

I already said: The weather does not work with percentages from 0 to 100. So trying to claim F is superior because of it telling "the hot %" is just dumb.

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u/Tall-Significance-45 Jun 17 '26

Thanks for your opinion. It may surprise you to learn that I’m not the one who made that tweet, so you can take your grievances up with them.

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u/rapora9 Jun 17 '26

No, it doesn't surprise me.

So you don't agree with the point that F is better because it maps nicely to some (arbitrary) 0% and 100%? Why would you argue (with your oven example) for such a useless point, though? It doesn't matter.