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From the paper, that is: 36.3 ± 2.5°C.
by lioeters 17d ago
From the paper, that is: 36.3 ± 2.5°C.
- orbital-decay 17d agoThanks, I thought it was almost boiling.
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- gibspaulding 17d agoSo 97.3 ± 4.5 °F for anyone else curious how the precision translates.
- Galilyou 17d agoPhew! Thank you! I feel for the ungodly fahrenheit again
- nmoon 17d agoFahrenheit is the superior measure
- WarmWash 17d agoBetter for day to day life, worse for science and engineering.
- msm_ 17d agoIs it really better for day to day life? I am certain that it only appears so because you're used to it. I think for day to day life they're both roughly equivalent. Of course, for me Celsius is more natural and intuitive, but again - that's because I'm used to it.
- antif 17d ago100F is about peak summer heat; 0F is about peak winter chills. Works great for describing weather .. in various places.
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- jjtheblunt 17d agoArizona says "hold my boiling beer".
- yencabulator 16d agoI have slept in a tent in -31 F, what is this "peak winter chills" you claim to speak of?
- WarmWash 17d agoYou can basically put a "%" after a fahrenheit temperature and read it as "percentage of a really hot day" and you'll get a pretty good idea what it feels like outside. It's pretty well calibrated as a 0-100 scale for human temperature perception.
- esperent 17d agoI moved from a cold climate to a tropical climate and let me assure you there's no human universal understanding of what's comfortably hot or cold, definitely not to the point of putting a percentage on it. I can walk around in a T-shirt and shorts at 17C (62f) while locals will be wrapping up in scarves and talking about how freezing it is. Meanwhile they'll be fairly comfortable at 35C (95f), at least if the humidity isn't high, and I'll be stuck in with the AC blasting. So in other words Fahrenheit is a western centric measurement (or at least, temperature climate centric), while Celsius is universal.
- nkrisc 17d agoThe subjective experience doesn’t really matter because many places in the US will experience a 100 degree F range over an entire year. So it’s not the “comfortable range” but the actual range you’ll get in many parts of the US (whether you like it or not).
- konart 17d ago>Better for day to day life It is not.
- jandrewrogers 17d agoKelvin is superior for science and engineering but doesn't arbitrarily anchor the scale to the freezing and boiling point of water in the way Celsius and Fahrenheit both do. 273.15 Kelvin doesn't roll off the tongue like 0°C or 32°F.
- RajT88 17d ago32°F and 212°F roll off the tongue?
- jandrewrogers 17d agoRelatively speaking? Yes. Also, the layman rarely needs to know the boiling point of water. The freezing point is useful though. For serious scientific and engineering applications the freezing and boiling point of water isn't actually 0°C and 100°C in most real scenarios.
- hibbelig 17d agoDoesn’t almost everybody cook? With boiling water?
- roryirvine 16d agoYeah, but you don't need a thermometer for that. Using zero as the freezing point of water makes sense for everyday use, and using the boiling point for 100 degrees does follow fairly naturally from that - but plenty of other potential reference points could have worked equally well. That said, for all the American claims of "fahrenheit is more human", 100 °C is the temperature of a hot sauna so works much better as "the highest temperature you'll encounter in day to day life" than 100 °F.
- RajT88 15d ago> "fahrenheit is more human" This is among the least stupid claims us Americans make in defense of our measurement system.
- rf15 17d agocounterpoint: it doesn't matter, since you need to learn relevant boiling/freezing temperatures on both scales anyway. As a european: F is the only american system that is easy to use and reason with (considering its 0-100 range is spanning the "doable" temp range of too-cold to too-hot), unlike other imperial systems for lengths and whatnot.
- t-writescode 17d agoI would argue feet and inches are pretty good too, since there’s a foot on your body, and a thumb, too, for inches. Weight, mass and considerable distances, I’ll grant you, though.
- dryrun 16d agolet me show you the size difference between my wife's thumb and mine, and let's debate again.
- t-writescode 16d agoI feel like you’re intentionally misrepresenting me. I’m obviously talking about number sense, mental visualization, etc.
- deagle50 17d agoreally is, and I grew up in celsius.
- nkrisc 17d agoI quite like Fahrenheit. The 0 to 100F (-17 to 37C) range perfectly encapsulates the range of outdoor temperatures I expect to encounter during the year. If the forecast is outside that range, it’s going to be miserable.
- cosmic_cheese 17d agoSame. I prefer Celsius for most other things but I find Fahrenheit very well suited to climate usage.