Celsius is how hot water feels. Fahrenheit is how hot humans feel.
One is clearly more applicable for day-to-day life.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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One is clearly more applicable for day-to-day life.
And yet, 96% of the world uses the "wrong" system....
either are fine, just depends if you were raised using it or not
but one of them can be used easily simultaneously on day to day and science anywhere in the world
Well, mostly. You still need to use Kelvin so you don't get negative numbers for sciencing, but using them simultaneously for both day-to-day and science is nowhere near as common. Most people just want to know what to wear, and using Celsius loses a lot of the fidelity that Fahrenheit gives. This is after I spent 2 years only looking up the weather in Celsius so that I could get a feel for each degree of difference, and ended up just getting frustrated at how the same degree temperature in Celsius could feel drastically different to me when it's actually a 2-3 degree difference in Fahrenheit.
Also, FWIW, British people love to use Fahrenheit when it's over 100 degrees because it 'feels hotter' to say that than '37', but they also love using Celsius when it's below freezing, as it 'feels colder' to say negative numbers instead of numbers in their teens or twenties. It's more psychology than anything, but Fahrenheit still definitely has its practical uses, and I'm not ditching it anytime soon.
We can ditch feet/yards/miles though. Meters definitely make more sense in that regard.
Your point about Kelvin true, you still need to do some converting, but as I said, the day to day use ultimately depends if you were raised using either.
Using me as an example, I completely understand that 10~15C outside is freezing, 22~27 is okay, 30~36 is hot and 40+ is scalding.
You could make this same point about fahrenheit and both are true, I have no ideia what 100F feels like, or 10 or 40 or 160.
10-15 Celsius literally isn't "freezing" though?
I wouldn't get outside without a heavy coat, we don't have temperatures below 0 where I live, if you think that by "freezing" I meant ice and snow, that would be incorrect
Actually, we're on the metric system. The foot and inch are defined exactly by their metric conversion values, and so is the pound
We're actually just using conversion factors
How is this supposed to be considered using the metric system? If you tell someone that you weigh 80kg and he doesn't have a clue what you mean, then you're not really using the metric system, are you?
That's on them, the pound is exactly 0.45359237 kg
So the conversion is trivial: 176lbs
Also, another issue with what you're suggesting is that people have to memorize several conversion factors as well. Inherently, you only have to be able to convert inches -> cm and pounds -> kg, but unless you want to do even more math in your head, you also have to remember feet -> cm, yards -> cm, miles -> cm, square feet -> square meters, cubic feet -> cubic meters (phew, that's just all the length conversions), pounds -> kg, ounces -> grams, pounds -> grams, cups -> grams (for every fluid you might want to measure), litres -> gallons, litres -> pints, etc.
Or you could just go through the one-time effort of actually using the metric system so you don't have to carry this mental burden with you everywhere you go....
The problems with that are:
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hardly anyone knows the conversion factor
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other people aren't going to do the math in their head
That's on them
them == everybody in this case. Practically, nobody is going to do what you suggest - instead, non-metric users will ask metric users to do the conversion for them. And why should we be responsible for doing the work when they are the ones who refuse to use the system that 96% of the world has adopted?
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