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Speaking from the human experience, "0 degrees Celsius means the road could be icy" is more useful than "68 degrees Fahrenheit is normal room temperature", woul
by neverminder 6y ago
Speaking from the human experience, "0 degrees Celsius means the road could be icy" is more useful than "68 degrees Fahrenheit is normal room temperature", wouldn't you agree?
- gwd 6y ago"The road could be icy" is certainly a useful data point. But "70% of the way from 'wow this is cold' to 'wow this is hot' is a moderately comfortable temperature" seems reasonable to me. (68 is a comfortable temperature for men wearing suits... a better more general temperature is probably 72.)
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThis all puts way too much stock in temperature being what decides if we go "wow this is cold/hot." Wind, humidity, and other assorted factors play too large of a role to value basing our temperature system on it. Zero F with no wind can feel like a nice day compared to zero C with tons of wind.