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In India there is a running joke amongst physics teachers/professors that whenever a student forgets to write unit of measurement of the final answers they are

by shmde 5y ago

In India there is a running joke amongst physics teachers/professors that whenever a student forgets to write unit of measurement of the final answers they are mocked by saying 120 degrees what ? Banana ? Apple ? Centigrade ? Applies to this title too.

alexgartrell 5y ago
I don't think it's particularly ambiguous since anything other than Fahrenheit would imply that everyone is dead.
- murderfs 5y ago
  120 degrees Delisle is perfectly comfortable!
- Thiez 5y ago
  We overwhelmingly use Celcius for temperature in Europe though, so the Fahrenheit option isn't as obvious as it might be in the US.
decremental 5y ago
It doesn't apply to this title. You'd have to be pretty dumb to think it's even possible for the temperature there to be 120c. Given the number and what it's describing it's easy to figure out which measure is being used. All this whinging over c/f is unnecessary.
Asraelite 5y ago
And there are memes mocking teachers for doing exactly that, because it's just ridiculous pedantry when the unit is very clear from context.
scrollaway 5y ago
This is indeed a bad title, and yet those professors you're talking about sound like assholes. I remember being mocked by my professors at school as well when making a mistake. All it did was make me resent them for being assholes to me, it didn't teach me to use units more correctly. If instead they simply had said "Celcius or Farenheit? You have to be explicit, because ...", I would have learned something and it would have stuck with me. Professors being nice to students makes the students want to be nice in return, and want to learn as a result. I still resent every single one of my high school professor that did this sort of shit. All they achieved was getting me to drop out. Joke's on them, I pursued the career they mocked and did better at it than they did at theirs. And when I see other professors, coaches, teachers and mentors do this kind of shit to students today, I honestly want to slap them silly. This is why I'll continue mentoring whoever I can. Education is the single most important factor in our survival as a species, especially now.
bserge 5y ago
I'm not AIcist, but it really shouldn't take more than a second to understand what the scale is. 120 degC = mass extinction. No one uses Reaumur and Kelvin is only used as a joke or by absolute pedants. Hence, it's Fahrenheit.
- layer8 5y ago
  It could be read as a longitude if you’re poor in geography.
  - bserge 5y ago
    Poor in everything, I guess, since longitudes don't tend to move much over time.
wil421 5y ago
In the US when someone says 120 degrees we automatically know what they are referring to. Beside you are reading a US article on a US based news aggregator.

by shmde 5y ago

alexgartrell 5y ago

I don't think it's particularly ambiguous since anything other than Fahrenheit would imply that everyone is dead.

murderfs 5y ago
120 degrees Delisle is perfectly comfortable!
Thiez 5y ago
We overwhelmingly use Celcius for temperature in Europe though, so the Fahrenheit option isn't as obvious as it might be in the US.

decremental 5y ago

It doesn't apply to this title. You'd have to be pretty dumb to think it's even possible for the temperature there to be 120c. Given the number and what it's describing it's easy to figure out which measure is being used. All this whinging over c/f is unnecessary.

Asraelite 5y ago

And there are memes mocking teachers for doing exactly that, because it's just ridiculous pedantry when the unit is very clear from context.

scrollaway 5y ago

This is indeed a bad title, and yet those professors you're talking about sound like assholes. I remember being mocked by my professors at school as well when making a mistake. All it did was make me resent them for being assholes to me, it didn't teach me to use units more correctly. If instead they simply had said "Celcius or Farenheit? You have to be explicit, because ...", I would have learned something and it would have stuck with me. Professors being nice to students makes the students want to be nice in return, and want to learn as a result. I still resent every single one of my high school professor that did this sort of shit. All they achieved was getting me to drop out. Joke's on them, I pursued the career they mocked and did better at it than they did at theirs. And when I see other professors, coaches, teachers and mentors do this kind of shit to students today, I honestly want to slap them silly. This is why I'll continue mentoring whoever I can. Education is the single most important factor in our survival as a species, especially now.

bserge 5y ago

I'm not AIcist, but it really shouldn't take more than a second to understand what the scale is. 120 degC = mass extinction. No one uses Reaumur and Kelvin is only used as a joke or by absolute pedants. Hence, it's Fahrenheit.

layer8 5y ago
It could be read as a longitude if you’re poor in geography.
- bserge 5y ago
  Poor in everything, I guess, since longitudes don't tend to move much over time.

wil421 5y ago

In the US when someone says 120 degrees we automatically know what they are referring to. Beside you are reading a US article on a US based news aggregator.