We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.
However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.
How is it vastly superior? 0 is freezing. 100 is boiling. 25 is comfortable human temperature.
Thermostats and other temperature displays with three digits for Celsius are a tacit admission that Fahrenheit is more useful.
Don’t be scared of decimals. But it’s whatever you are used to for measurement units. If you grow up with one, the other won’t make any sense. You will prefer what you are used to.
Degree Celsius is just generally more preferable because it has an easy to understand, and to explain, scale. 0°C being water freezing and 100°C being water boiling. Degree Farenheit is just whatever the fuck (hence why the whole world adopted degree Celsius).
Same with the rest of the metric system, it’s all divisible nicely. The USA is just stubborn to change, but are slowly converting, they will probably end up like the UK, using both.
The fact that Celsius needs three digits to express what Fahrenheit can do with two shows that Celsius degrees are too close together. Plus, you need a sign since Celsius is often negative.
Fahrenheit just covers the human-felt temperature range better. 0°F is very cold, 99°F is very hot.
And the zero-and 100-points of both scales are equally arbitrary. Kelvin at least has a zero point based on an intrinsic property of temperature. And “double” or “half” mean something in kelvin.
It doesn’t? Nobody needs the accuracy of 3 digits to tell the temperature, a 1°C change is just about perceivable to us. So having more of a scale is irrelevant, we dont generally use decimals in weather reports because it’s not needed (and if you do want more, then having 3 digits is literally a non-issue).
You also use a sign for negatives in Farenheit when it gets that cold and you use 3 numbers when it gets that hot. This is the first time I’ve ever heard this argument for Farenheit aha, it’s like clutching at straws.
Basing Celsius around water, something we all come into contact to, which we freeze and boil all the time. Is not really an “arbitrary” scale. Farenheit was based on a solution of brine for 0 and then a rough estimate of human body temperature for 100, two things not even related.
You wouldn’t like Kelvin, that uses 3 numbers.
I never seen a sign or a third digit on a Fahrenheit thermostat. Every time I set my car to metric it adds a tenths digit because Celsius degrees are too coarse.
What car is that, I am european and I haven’t seen even a single time a car show anything in tenths of a degree and besides how the fuck is a thermostat going to get that precise without being a lab one or for a small space.
Several BMWs and a Volvo. They increment by half degrees C. Or one degree Fahrenheit.
I have seen a ford, two mazdas, two opels and a renault that doesn’t increment in tenths.
They are an admission that the U.S. market is large. 99 % of the world’s countries using Celcius is a blatant admission that celcius is more useful.
Precisely. You get it
I’m not a cup of water
Tbf you are water, just really impure.
The meat is going to be very uncomfortable long before the water freezes or melts