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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry im clearly not your average person experiencing >38° on a regular basis. There are plenty of humans that exist in climates that fall entirely outside of what you Americans consider "normal". Which is why "-18 - 38 is the 'normal' range for an average person" is such an American thing to say. You took your own climate and projected it across the world.

Personally I like to go with the system that makes the most sense for 70% of earth's surface and 64% of a human body.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What? -18C to 38C is a massive range. Only a very small minority of people would experience temperatures outside that range for most the year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Tell that to Germany who have now hit 42° during summer thanks to global warming. If you really think that it's a tiny minority that live in climates who experience those temperatures then you are not very well travelled. Note also that a lot of countries have a real temperature <38 but thanks to the humidity it feels >38. Farenheit is just another temperature scale. There is nothing more intuitive about it than any other scale. If we were always told the temperature in kelvin we would think that to feel the most natural.

Just accept that we like our scales because they are familiar and not because they are better.