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0 pointsbluGill2mo ago0 comments

It is what you are used to for both of you. you could make your own measurement system and it would work fine once you get used to it - until you need to communicate with someone else who isn't used to it.

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ghaff2mo ago

A big part of it is certainly what you're used to.

The other part, which I'm sympathetic to, is that for human scale everyday things, Fahrenheit 0 degrees lines up with really darned cold, 100 degrees with really hot outside of an oven, and the degree size is about twice as granular as Celsius.

And while Celsius degree size is indeed widely used in engineering calculations, you're often using Kelvin as the absolute temperature scale. (Which does use Celsius degree increments of course.)

bryanlarsen2mo ago

> and the degree size is about twice as granular as Celsius.

And then they'll argue that the inch is more convenient than the centimeter because it's twice as large.

That's backwards. Fractions of an inch are in far more common usage than fractions of a centigrade. Ideal might be both a smaller inch and a smaller centigrade, but between the two a smaller inch is more helpful than a smaller centigrade.

graemep2mo ago

0 lines up with freezing point is very intuitive.

bluGillOP2mo ago

Perhaps, but useless for most purposes. You need to know how think of a coat to wear and you need a mental map from some number to some coat. It doesn't matter what the scale is, just that you have that map.

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Symbiote2mo ago

This is just your familiarity.

Someone from the tropics might say 8°F is really darned cold, or 15°F, or whatever.

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