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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When it comes to a single number on a scale, whatever you grew up with will be more "obvious". 100F doesn't give me any more information than 38C does. The whole "base 10" thing only matters if you are actually doing some math to that number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Base 10 makes it much easier to remember.

When was the last time you did math related to temperature?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

For day to day use, it's just a single number, no one is doing any conversions, etc, with the number. That was my point. There's nothing to remember. Do you forget what 72F feels like? Do you have to scale it in your head?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

base 10 is literally just 0-9 so yeah, everyone remembers that.

scaling based on the base 10 figure makes conversions easier, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Kelvin is used for math pretty regularly. Rankine was too.

[+] Lizardking27 -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

100F definitely gives more insight as to the temperature. It's a 100/100. That's as hot as a person can really tolerate. If you understand percentages or how to rate things on a scale of 1-10, you understand fahrenheit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's as hot as a person can really tolerate.

There's large chunks of the world proving that false every day. For the geographically impared, the simple fact that Phoenix has existed for longer than air conditioning, proves that statement false.

And 0F as the low point is equally as useless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

fun fact about phoenix, going outside on a day that's about 100f, is not fucking pleasant they literally have air misters to help provide cooling, which barely does anything.

People are just fucking insane and will live in places like alaska where the ground is literally frozen all year round. Phoneix AZ is not "habitable", it's bearable. Also a lot of these places, especially in hotter dryer regions, will have covered sidewalks to provide shade, (at least historically) people would and still do wear large hats to block a lot of the sun. Even then a lot of people wouldn't spend a whole bunch of time outside in that heat.

also, have you seen death valley? It kills people, every fucking year.

[–] Lizardking27 -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why I used the qualifier "really" and in another comment I mentioned "in average temperate climates" If you were more familiar with statistics you would understand how means and outliers work. Just like someone can score a movie an 11/10 or a -1/10, it is possible for the weather to exceed 100F or drop below 0F. Just not typical.

And while I didn't say it specifically, 0F is similarly the average lowest temperature a person can tolerate/expect before beginning to experience problems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hypothermia can be a problem in temperatures as high as 50F. 0F is a meaningless number, outside of purely subjective "it's cold" uses.

[–] Lizardking27 -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Can be" Yeah if you're submerged in 50F water you will succumb to hypothermia due to the specific heat of water.

But we're not discussing swimming pool temperatures, we're discussing air temperatures. You are not actively in danger of imminent hypothermia at 50F air temp like you are at 0F air temp.

But of course you know that already. You're not here arguing in good faith, you just want to sling shit at people that have a better understanding of the world than you. If you want to use Celsius for everything, go ahead. No one cares. But the intelligent world will keep using both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

But the intelligent world will keep using both.

Lol