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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

How very American.

I suppose it is how people feel, just, y'know, the roughly 4-5% of people who happen to already use that temperature scale. Shocker, that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think if Fahrenheit as percent hot. 0F is zero percent hot, 100F is 100 percent hot. Most people are comfortable with the weather between 60-80 percent hot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I see a lot of people that say Fahrenheit makes sense if you think about it as a percentage, but i have no idea what "60% hot" means

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think the focus of this is just where the origins of the units are derived. Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range, Celsius was invented based on the liquid range of water, and Kelvin was invented based on when matter stops

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range...

0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!

You're talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That's all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The focus of it is what you are used to.
All scales are basically created equal - they must be, since they measure the same thing and scale the same way. (No pun intended.)
The only difference there can ever be between C/K/F (or R for that matter) is multiplying by one constant and/or adding another.

Yanks use Fahrenheit, grow up with it, and see it used every day. Therefore it is intuitive and logical. To them.
The vast majority of people on Earth - about 95% - actually don't, so it isn't.

That makes the phrasing and underlying assumption pretty characteristically American, and tempting to poke some gentle fun at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Except it was calibrated on someone who was running a fever, so it fails at even that.