• uienia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Americans always regurgite the “Fahrenheit is how people feel” nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure “how people feel” and will think it is a very inituitive system.

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      8 months ago

      Can confirm. Moved from the US to Canada and maybe a year of using Celcius revealed to me just how fucking stupid and convoluted Fahrenheit is. My dad spent three weeks out here and started using Celcius on his phone. Now I only use Fahrenheit when dealing with fevers or temping cases of suspiciously overripe produce.

      Fellow Americans. Celcius is superior and more intuitive for those who take a moment to adjust to it. It is okay to accept this as fact without developing an inferiority complex. USA not always #1. USA quite often not #1 and that is okay. It is okay for USA to not be #1 without developing an inferiority complex.

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      8 months ago

      It is really easy to map onto human feel though. 0-100 pretty accurately maps onto our minimum and maximum realistically survivable temps, long-term, and the middle temperatures of those are the most comfortable. It’s far more round, when it comes to describing human preference and survivability, than Celsius is.

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        8 months ago

        I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called “the lowest you’ll experience” as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold, some people experience colder.

        I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you’ll experience in America.

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          8 months ago

          boiling water isnt necessarily 100c. if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

          thats like going to a geyser pit and saying thats 100c, when it isnt. when you cook and let water come to a boil, the chef doesnt care that its exactly 100c, only that its in the state above 100.

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            8 months ago

            if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

            That’s not how boiling works. The water heats up to its boiling point where it stops and boils. While boiling the temperature does not increase, it stays exactly at the boiling point. This is called “Latent Heat”, at its boiling point water will absorb heat without increasing in temperature until it has absorbed enough for its phase to change.

            There is an exception to this called superheating

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          8 months ago

          What? People experience 100 f regularly. It’s literally their body temperature.

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            8 months ago

            100F is a fever; if you’re experiencing those regularly you should go see a doctor.

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        8 months ago

        I wanna say that with this logic 50 should be right around the most comfortable temp… But for most people it’s closer to 70.

        I’ll try to explain how easily mappable Celsius is to people as well.

        -40 to +40… -40 being extremely cold, and +40 being extremely hot. 21c is the equivalent of 70f.

        It’s all the same stuff. Just matters what you’re used to.

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          0-150 is the better range, and 75 is right in the middle. 100 is just a hot air temperature most people don’t want to be in but it’s not an extreme.

          Saunas can get up to 200 degrees

          Hot tubs are usually at 100

          Freezers need to be at least 0

          You say 15°C. 6° cooler than room temperature. But how much is 6°?

          It’s 60°F.

          50°F or 10°C is where you need clothes to survive

          300, 325, 350 is where you bake cookies (149-176°C)

          Fahrenheit has a bunch of 5 and 10s

          Saying something like high 70s or low 70s for temp represents an easy way to tell temperature.

          21° to 26° for celcius

          I walk outside and say “It feels like high 70s today” someone using celcius would say, “Feels like 25°”. If it was a little warmer than “low 80s” compared to “Ehh about 26 or 27°C”

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            8 months ago

            Why is it okay to say high 70s/low 80s and not high 20s? No one goes outside and says, “Ehh, it feels like 26.6 oC today.”, we just know it is a bit warmer than 25.

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            8 months ago

            Yeah, I get your point. I think I’m just trying to explain that it all just matters where you grew up and what you used. I go outside today and I do say it feels like a 12 degree day. It’s not that much different.

            I must admit, the oven temps are nice, but they are a product of being written in Fahrenheit (if they were written in celcius, it would be round too, like 150c, 160c, 170c, 175c, etc)

            But the more I look at it the more I see it’s all just numbers. We put importance to these numbers but they’re all pretty arbitrary, except celcius using 0 as the freezing point for water and 100 as the boiling point- these are two very important measures that are just weird for Fahrenheit.

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              8 months ago

              When do you use 0° and 100°C?

              This is also at standard pressure and most do not live at sea level.

              I don’t put a thermometer in my water to make sure it is boiling or one in my water to make sure it freezes.

              It can snow and roads can ice before it hits 0°C

              It has no real world applications

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      8 months ago

      I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

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        8 months ago

        But that also doesn’t matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don’t make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F

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          8 months ago

          Not at those exact temperatures, but one degree matters in in grilling meat, making mash for beer, making candy, etc.

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            6 months ago

            Where in the chicken I jam the thermometer makes several degrees difference. If you truly require that level of granularity whilst grilling, I’d wager reading a decimal figure isn’t the end of the world. Us normies can continue to bring chicken to 74 and call it a day

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      8 months ago

      I mean, you’re 100% wrong. Fahrenheit isn’t “how people feel” arbitrarily, it’s almost literally a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside. You need no prior knowledge to interpret a Fahrenheit measurement. Which really reflects poorly on everyone who says “Fahrenheit doesn’t make any sense” because if they were capable of any thought at all they would figure it out in 2 seconds, like everyone else. I’m a lab rat that uses Celsius all day every day, I’m just not a pretentious stuck up tool about alternate measurements just because I refuse to understand them.

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      8 months ago

      Both are equally arbitrary. You just have to know a handful of temperatures that you use in your day to day life either way.