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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Really not. Basically, you just need to peg feelings to a number, just like you are doing.

Celsius:
below -20 = deadly even with good gear, you can't spend long here
-15 = very dangerous / deadly
-10 = starting to get dangerous
-5 = starting to get uncomfortable
0 = very cold
5 = cold
10 = a little cold
15 = cool
20 = nice
25 = warm
30 = hot
35 = starting to get uncomfortable
40 = starting to get dangerous
45 = very dangerous / deadly
50+ = deadly even with good gear, you can't spend long here

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

I don't think you understand what I said.

Also, that's a lot of explaining, and lots of feelings associated with arbitrary numbers. Fahrenheit doesn't need anywhere near that level of explanation. It doesn't necessitate the pegging of feelings to random numbers.

The sentence "Fahrenheit is a 0-100 scale of how hot it is outside" is all anyone needs to immediately understand and be able to use fahrenheit. I didn't need to type out a long list of what each temperature value means to me. There is no need for a mneumonic such as "10 is cold, 20s not, 30s warm, and 40s hot"

If you're doing math in a lab, absolutely use Celsius. I'm not saying it doesn't have a place. It's just not the be-all end-all most perfectest temperature measurement system ever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think you are projecting your feeling onto others; I don't have "a mneumonic" in my head. That was for your benefit, since you are not immersed in that scale.

When I see the weather report and it says tomorrow it is going to be 25 degrees with light wind, I know that it will be a pleasant day. The same way I know what the reporter is saying, I have been immersed in the English language since birth, it requires no though to understand the words they are saying.

It requires no thought to understand that 25 degrees and light wind is a nice day. It just is.

I don't have that intuitive sense for the F scale, I always have to convert it to a sensible number. I know 100 is around 37, which is really hot.

[–] Lizardking27 -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But it requires you to be familiar with an arbitrary -20 - 40 scale. Which makes way less sense than a 0-100 scale.

I don't need to use the mnemonic either, I grew up in the U.S. so I understand both systems perfectly well. But the mnemonic exists because Celsius uses an inherently less sensible scale. You only understand it internally because you grew up with it. A person who grew up with neither system would find fahrenheit easier to understand from an unbiased position because it's more logical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

deg C is no more arbitrary than deg F; any more than French is more arbitrary than English.

It is a strange argument to say "You only understand it internally because you grew up with it."; well yes, but that is exactly the same with the deg F scale.

A person who grew up with neither system would find fahrenheit easier to understand from an unbiased position because it’s more logical.

In your opinion.

In my opinion it is far more logical to base you temperature scale on repeatable physical measurements, than say what a person feels.

0 C = water freezes
0 F =

Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt)

100 C = water boils
100 F = best estimate for average human body temperature.

The F scale is not built on logic.

[–] Lizardking27 -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay yeah you're totally right Celsius is the most perfectest and wonderful system of temperature measurement and it can do everything and it's magical and perfect for every single application ever.

Sure, bud.

Also "repeatable physical measurements" I think I found your problem. You seem to think that a fahrenheit thermometer will display a different temperature each time something is measured, even if the temperature has not changed. Allow me to clarify for you: if you measure something at a constant temperature more than once with a fahrenheit thermometer, the thermometer will display the same value each time, just like Celsius. I can see how that misconception could've led to your confusion, I'm glad I could help you to understand better. Let me know if you need anything else explained to you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course the last bastion of the failed debate; ad hominem and straw man.

Have a fine day.

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

Of course the last bastion of the failed debate, a poor attempt to dismiss the oppositions' arguments as logical fallacies. The only problem is you clearly have no idea what either of those logical fallacies are. Didn't even mention reductio ad absurdum.

It's ridiculous that you're actually here arguing that there's absolutely no place in modern science for the fahrenheit system of measurement. What a backwards, preposterous stance to take. Your small-mindedness will not serve you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You literally were refuting points that I didn't make, that is a straw man. You stopped debating in good faith; therefore the debate is over.

It’s ridiculous that you’re actually here arguing that there’s absolutely no place in modern science for the fahrenheit system of measurement.

Again; I didn't say that, that is you.

Now that the debate is over we may commence the shit slinging.

You sir, are an uneducated rat fondler; I hope you enjoy your mothers basement.

[–] Lizardking27 -2 points 2 months ago

My dude, my entire claim is "both systems of measurement have their applications" And you objected to that. You are here right now arguing the contrary. You chose to voice an opposing opinion.

Do you even know what your point is? Are you seriously so unfulfilled that you're here just arguing for the sake of arguing?

Look, I've made my point, I've provided arguments to support it. I'm not gonna keep arguing with some edgelord. Good luck with whatever.

[–] uienia 0 points 2 months ago

It is pretty funny how you keep claiming "fahrenheit is the best system for human temperature" countless times. Celsius users then question that, though without claiming celsius is better, it is just something we are used to.

And then you get all pissy and strawman celsius users as saying the exact thing you have been claiming about fahrenheit this entire thread.

[–] uienia 1 points 2 months ago

But it requires you to be familiar with an arbitrary -20 - 40 scale. Which makes way less sense than a 0-100 scale.

Your 0-100 scale is just as arbitrary, in fact even more, since it doesn't even cover the daily temperatures huge parts of the global population lives in.