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But your second sentence is entirely the point. Practically if you’re used to C then you know exactly what the habitable human range is, and Fahrenheit is meani
by stephen_g 3y ago
But your second sentence is entirely the point. Practically if you’re used to C then you know exactly what the habitable human range is, and Fahrenheit is meaningless to you (I literally have no intuition for it - I know that 32 is zero C and and 100 is around 40 C, so I know what that feels like, but I can’t imagine at all what any Fahrenheit temperature between that feels like without googling the conversion).
So 0-100 being ‘human scale’ is nothing but perhaps a bit of a fun novelty, the only thing that is important is either having or building the familiarity and intuition (which is mostly just from experience of everyday use).
- flangola7 3y agoYou can't imagine what 50F feels like? Or 80F? Come on. Fahrenheit is also more precise. 2 degree F above normal body temp is a fever. 2 degree C is a trip to the ER.
- aragilar 3y agoNope, no idea. If I plug in in numbers, I get 10°C and 26+2/3°C, both of which I can imagine, but neither of the Fahrenheit values have any meaning for me.