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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren't scientists and therefore don't need to learn Celsius, so this isn't really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

maybe in high school science, but like you said, after that fact you really don't touch it ever again, so it becomes a relatively dead concept in most peoples brain