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Common sense suggests that living creatures are likely not boiling when they have a mild fever.
by bthrn 16d ago
Common sense suggests that living creatures are likely not boiling when they have a mild fever.
- john_strinlai 16d 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 16d agoI’m metric all the way, but if it would use metric, it still should unambiguously state: C
- john_strinlai 16d 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 16d agoCommon sense would be using metric units in science-related article.
- petcat 16d agoAmericans don't use Celsius when talking about their body temperatures, and that's who the audience is.
- StilesCrisis 16d agoAmericans don't use Celsius for anything except scientists talking with other scientists.
- d_sem 15d agothat hasn't been my experience. Its widely used in engineering and has been for decades.
- wyre 15d agoYa, I think engineering falls under the umbrella of “scientists talking to other scientists”
- ericpruitt 15d 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 16d agoIt's a US-based newspaper written for the general public. Common sense would say it's using US units.
- forestry 15d agoThis is what I told my chemistry teacher in high school when he marked me down for not including units, too.
- SpecialistK 15d agoCommon sense also suggests using the SI units that ~95% of the planet uses, but here we are.
- ChrisRR 15d agoI know nothing about dinosaurs, so if you had told me that their blood was 97°C then I would've believed you