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Fahrenheit is better. Fight me
Ha! You can't just say "fight me" and then disappear! What are your arguments?
The range for livable temperatures follows a more reasonable scale. Hot is really high numbers. Cold is low. The exact temperature is more precise because the range is larger.
Celsius is fine for scientists but for the regular person Fahrenheit has a better range.
Also I'm biased.I'm also biased.
But:
- Celsius is easy to understand, even for children: water freezes at 0Β°C, boils at 100Β°C.
- It is understood by more people in the world.
- If the US used Celsius, understanding scientific papers and data would be easier for common people.
- In Celsius, the range of livable temperatures for humans (-20 to 40Β°C) still gives plenty of precision. Additionally, each step in the Celsius scale corresponds to a bigger change in "feel" of the temperature, which leads to a more intuitive understanding of temperature changes.
Yes it's easy to understand 0 and 100 are the freezing and boiling points of pure water, but humans aren't pure water. Fahrenheit is a 0-100 representation of temperature that actually relates to our sensory perception.
Your first 3 points, I can agree with. We will have to agree to disagree on the last one.
Can you feel the difference between 73F and 75F? No, you can't, don't lie.
As someone who uses their thermostat and regularly switches between 72 and 75, yes. Yes I can.
Fake thermostats which exist solely to give the occupants of office buildings an illusion of control are an entire product category. If I were to replace your thermostat with one without your knowledge, you would be just as happy turning it up and down all day.
From now on, if anyone needs an example of why Lemmy/kbin are better than Reddit, we can link to this thread :) It was nice to have a respectful debate with someone without it devolving into an exchange of simplistic quips.
It's not like something fundamentally changes at a logical 0 C. Oh wait. Well it's not like it falls from the sky. Oh wait.
I don't want to fight you because you're absolutely right.