Because precision has nothing to do with it and it’s all about being easy to convert between different units and having sensible zero and 100-points for temperature?
How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?
And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.
I’m being genuine, I’m not trying to shit on you. I’m pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don’t use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it’s pretty clearly worse.
But I legitimately don’t understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.
How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?
I was talking about Metric as a whole, where the units of measurement for distance, mass, etc. are easily convertible and the unit for temperature has sensible zero- and 100-points. I would have thought that was obvious.
Why write 36.111 C when you could write 97 F? Its the same reason you write 3cm instead of 0.03m. Its just more convenient even though its the same thing.
Why write 96.8 F when you could write 36 C? Do you honestly believe that we’re thinking about temperatures in Fahrenheit and then just converting to Celsius when we write them down?
In fairness to Fahrenheit, you can round it to a whole number with a lesser difference in feel. That’s more for feel though, for measurements of temp in cooking or chemistry, Celsius is useful due to boiling point.
Do you honestly believe that we’re thinking about temperatures in Fahrenheit and then just converting to Celsius when we write them down?
Why on earth would I think that? I made the comparison to other units of measurement to demonstrate why smaller units are useful in some cases. There are cases where its not useful, but there are also many cases where the advantages of Celsius aren’t useful. Neither is inherently better, the correct one to use is the one you know better or the one that fits the use case better.
Because precision has nothing to do with it and it’s all about being easy to convert between different units and having sensible zero and 100-points for temperature?
How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?
And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.
I’m being genuine, I’m not trying to shit on you. I’m pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don’t use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it’s pretty clearly worse.
But I legitimately don’t understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.
I was talking about Metric as a whole, where the units of measurement for distance, mass, etc. are easily convertible and the unit for temperature has sensible zero- and 100-points. I would have thought that was obvious.
Why write 36.111 C when you could write 97 F? Its the same reason you write 3cm instead of 0.03m. Its just more convenient even though its the same thing.
Why write 96.8 F when you could write 36 C? Do you honestly believe that we’re thinking about temperatures in Fahrenheit and then just converting to Celsius when we write them down?
In fairness to Fahrenheit, you can round it to a whole number with a lesser difference in feel. That’s more for feel though, for measurements of temp in cooking or chemistry, Celsius is useful due to boiling point.
Agreed, though if you are measuring it via instrument then what difference does it make how “round” the number is?
Why on earth would I think that? I made the comparison to other units of measurement to demonstrate why smaller units are useful in some cases. There are cases where its not useful, but there are also many cases where the advantages of Celsius aren’t useful. Neither is inherently better, the correct one to use is the one you know better or the one that fits the use case better.
Fahrenheit has a fairly sensible 0 - just as Celsius is the temp of ice water, Fahrenheit is the temp of salty ice water.