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i know its the nytimes, so we can assume american units, but i find it sort of crazy that even throughout the body of the article it doesnt ever say "fahrenheit
by john_strinlai 2mo ago
i know its the nytimes, so we can assume american units, but i find it sort of crazy that even throughout the body of the article it doesnt ever say "fahrenheit".
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo agoIt doesn't need to. Any other unit would be either insanely cold or insanely hot.
- skrebbel 2mo agoGiven that it’s a shouty headline in a major publication, that’s what I would have expected.
- bthrn 2mo agoCommon sense suggests that living creatures are likely not boiling when they have a mild fever.
- john_strinlai 2mo agoi am not a paleontologist and there have been many extremely weird living creatures over the time earth has been around. and as the sibling comment mentions, i am primed for science articles to be metric.
- falserum 2mo agoI’m metric all the way, but if it would use metric, it still should unambiguously state: C
- john_strinlai 2mo agoindeed! my "common sense" is to always state the units you're working with, no matter how obvious you think it is. at least, that was the concept was drilled into me throughout all my schooling. perhaps that has changed in the last few decades.
- vojtapol 2mo agoCommon sense would be using metric units in science-related article.
- petcat 2mo agoAmericans don't use Celsius when talking about their body temperatures, and that's who the audience is.
- StilesCrisis 2mo agoAmericans don't use Celsius for anything except scientists talking with other scientists.
- d_sem 2mo agothat hasn't been my experience. Its widely used in engineering and has been for decades.
- wyre 2mo agoYa, I think engineering falls under the umbrella of “scientists talking to other scientists”
- ericpruitt 2mo agoA lot of monitoring software defaults to displaying hardware temperatures in Celsius regardless of the locale, and I've gotten so accustomed to knowing what a reasonable temperature is for different components that I personally never change the display units.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoIt's a US-based newspaper written for the general public. Common sense would say it's using US units.
- forestry 2mo agoThis is what I told my chemistry teacher in high school when he marked me down for not including units, too.
- SpecialistK 2mo agoCommon sense also suggests using the SI units that ~95% of the planet uses, but here we are.
- ChrisRR 2mo agoI know nothing about dinosaurs, so if you had told me that their blood was 97°C then I would've believed you