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In some places, most of your instruments will likely be in Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit is what you use daily for most tasks. It only makes sense that you use Fahr
by Broken_Hippo 4y ago
In some places, most of your instruments will likely be in Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit is what you use daily for most tasks. It only makes sense that you use Fahrenheit as your reference point.
A home in other places is more likely to have Celcius, and you'll likely use it.
It isn't like it is difficult to convert.
- Shaanie 4y agoOn the contrary Fahrenheit and Celsius is one of the harder units to convert. Can't just "halve and remove 10%" in your head like you can for pounds. Though I agree with you that you can't expect Americans to use SI units.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoMost folks reading this will have the internet. It makes conversion easy. If you don't, charts help get most common things converted. Easy.
- rsfern 4y agoThe scale factor is 9/5, which is close enough to 2 that the precision is fine for casual conversion (weather report, discussion of boiling tea on the web, …)
- coffeeling 4y agoDefinitely not. Say, 86F to C. 86F is 30C, but dividing the F by 2 would give you "43C", which converts to 109F. That is not a trivial difference.
- inimino 4y agoYou forgot to subtract 32 first. Then you get 27. Or in this case, 54 happens to be evenly divisible by 9, so doing the exact conversion is relatively convenient (divide by nine, multiply by five).
- gpvos 4y agoNo, it is very hard to convert. The US has about 4% of the world population. Adapt. It's not worth the communication problems.
- pasquinelli 4y agoi suppose they will when they have to.
- herbst 4y agoThey more or less did. It's just the general public that for some reason still uses these units.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoNo point in using kph for speed if all of the signs are in mph. No point in learning C for air temperature if the forecasts are in F. No point in using metric volume measurements if it doesn't match the measurements on your cooking tools. No point in using metric height and weight at the doctor if the form requests inches and pounds. And so on. You just don't have a choice unless the government makes the switch mandatory. So you use it as it comes up: Metric for medicine, for example, but not to figure out your clothing for the day.
- beezlewax 4y agoIn Ireland we changed all the road signs to kph 20 years ago. It too some minor adjustments but that was that.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoNo, it is very hard to convert. Do you think folks are doing it by hand? nope, they use the internet, the same thing we are communicating on. I agree that the US should convert, but that's another discussion. No need to crap on folks for using something familiar when we all know that's why they do it.