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Common sense would be using metric units in science-related article.
by vojtapol 16d ago
Common 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 16d agothat hasn't been my experience. Its widely used in engineering and has been for decades.
- wyre 16d agoYa, I think engineering falls under the umbrella of “scientists talking to other scientists”
- ericpruitt 16d 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.