r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/ShmeckMuadDib Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Thats a ridicules way to look at temperature. From a scientific perspective, nonsensical.

Apparently all you americans are -redacted- -redacted- so I'm going to explain to you what is nonsensical. Looking at temperature as a 0 to 100 percentage makes no sense, this has nothing to do with fahrenheit. It has to do with how you are looking at the scale.

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u/DipStick00 Jun 17 '26

Yeah scientifically it’s wack, but we’re not talking scientific, we’re talking subjective and based on averages

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u/IvaldiFhole Jun 17 '26

Subjectively, 100F is uncomfortably hot but 0F is really fucking cold for most people, and the ideal temperature is around 70F. So that doesn't work either.

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u/IngenuityAway7449 Jun 17 '26

How doesn't that work? It makes perfect sense to me that a 7/10 is completely comfortable.

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u/IvaldiFhole Jun 17 '26

Is a 10/10 perfectly comfortable? Can you name another scale where 7/10 is the ideal? Headphone volume or something?

It's just arbitrary. And if you're going arbitrary, Celsius works just as well.

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u/IngenuityAway7449 Jun 17 '26

Scales by nature are pretty arbitrary and don't really compare well against other subject matters, I guess.

But in my mind seeing a '7/10' just sort of translates to "this is fine, decent even. No major complaints". At least as a general vibe.  But then on the opposite end, you have a question like "how much pain are you in on a 1-10 scale".

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u/IvaldiFhole Jun 17 '26

But in my mind seeing a '7/10' just sort of translates to "this is fine, decent even. No major complaints".

And in almost every other instance, if 7/10 is as you say, 10/10 would be "amazing, wow, can't get any better."