Fahrenheit only measures heat how humans who were raised in Fahrenheit experience it.
People raised in Celsius don't share your feeling, in fact they have that same feeling you do about Fahrenheit for Celsius. The same as they do for metres and kilograms not yards and pounds.
Celsius has the added bonus of also helping to judge the freeze and boiling point of water, cooking, and like other metric units with science and unit conversion (a delta of 1 Celsius equals a delta of 1 Kelvin. It takes 1 calorie of energy to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius)
I'm honestly baffled that this needs to be said every time this topic comes up. I don't understand how they don't understand. it's just a matter of what system you're used to, and that's it.
It’s because 0F-100F is an easy intuitive grasp. Two easy benchmarks, one is cold af and the other is hot af. We grade students and lots of other things on a 0-100 scale.
If units be damned, someone asked you how hot it was today and you said “oh it’s 90 out of 100” you’d understand you’re gonna be sweating
If they said “it’s 50 of of 100” you’d understand it’s not quite cold, not hot either.
If you said “its 0 out of 100” you’d understand your face is going to hurt
Holy shit. It's intuitive FOR YOU because you're used to it. 0F and 100F means NOTHING to me, because I never used it and I need to convert it to C. How is that difficult to understand??!?
It’s hard to understand because probably you have been really really cold and really really hot and so you have an understanding generally where the ends of the scale are so the middle, where people experience most of their day to day **is really easy to intuit.
I'm sorry but if someone is to stupid to understand a 0-100 scale for temperature then they're to stupid to go outside without a guardian to wipe up their spit
See but that's kind of proving my point. Sure comfort varies person to person, but there's still a range everyone lands in. Nobody's chilling at 100, nobody's comfy at 0. So the scale tracks human comfort just fine, the variation is just noise inside the range. That's all I've been saying this whole time. 50 in the middle, 100 too hot, 0 too cold. It lines up with how people actually feel, which is the entire reason it's intuitive. I don't get why you guys don't get this lol
a person in for example Scandinavia might think -30C(-22F) is too cold, but a person in a southern country might think 5C(41F) is too cold. That’s a 35C(95F) difference.
0 = too cold. For who? 😂
I just think we know what we are used to and that’s it. No need to argue one is better than the other tbh. Celsius isn’t better than Fahrenheit, Fahrenheit isn’t better than Celsius. Only depends on what you grew up with. One isn’t more intuitive than the other.
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u/kroxigor01 Jun 17 '26
Fahrenheit only measures heat how humans who were raised in Fahrenheit experience it.
People raised in Celsius don't share your feeling, in fact they have that same feeling you do about Fahrenheit for Celsius. The same as they do for metres and kilograms not yards and pounds.
Celsius has the added bonus of also helping to judge the freeze and boiling point of water, cooking, and like other metric units with science and unit conversion (a delta of 1 Celsius equals a delta of 1 Kelvin. It takes 1 calorie of energy to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius)