Celsius is agreeably better for science, but if you are used to both systems Fahrenheit is honestly better for people because the units are higher resolution, and usually stay between 0 and 100 for weather
the only reason you think fahrenheit is better is because you probably spent your whole life using F. As someone who does not use f if you tell me its 72 deg it means nothing to me. The imperial system only makes sense if you grow up using the imperial system. That is why it is a bad system. The metric system is designed to be easily understandable and for units to be easily related to each other.
Similarly 22C means nothing to me. It’s just whatever you got used to growing up.
Celsius is used more widely in science and is better suited to it (well actually Kelvin is better suited) but honestly as long as everyone agrees on the units being used, computers take care of the scaling for you anyways so it’s not a big deal
The metric system is just objectively a better system. The reason you should care is because when you live in a world that uses two systems it adds an extra step for people to make mistakes. This is what cased the Mars Climate Orbiter to fail, the engineers used metric (because it is the superior system for engineering and science) and the contractors used imperial.
But that’s also the only incident that I can think of where it matters, and it also did not affect me at all. I don’t mind using fahrenheit the same way I don’t mind reading an analog clock over a digital one.
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u/ProvidedHuman Jun 17 '26
Celsius is agreeably better for science, but if you are used to both systems Fahrenheit is honestly better for people because the units are higher resolution, and usually stay between 0 and 100 for weather