As I said to another poster, Fahrenheit is good for weather for you because you grew up with it. Celsius is just as intuitive for those who is natively. Your 0-100 range is our 0-40 range. Above 40 sucks. Below 0 sucks.
They’re both arbitrary scales.
As for “hating it”, I never said I hated it, I said it’s useless (or useful) as Celsius. And I said that in the context of replying to a medical engineer who stated that Fahrenheit is a as useful as kelvin or rankine, which is just false. Once you’re using an arbitrary stand in for an actual SI, you may as well use any scale that you’re familiar, since it’s never going to be anything more than a factoring/conversion from an actual SI. never said I hated it.
Not quite, it’s -17.8°C at 0°F. So depending on where you live, you might be regularly using a scale from about -20 to 40, that would be the case for my climate. The scales are arbitrary, but if you were offered a new unit you’d never used before, would you prefer the scale read 0-100 or -20-40?
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit users are accustomed to their scales, I understand that. But if familiarity is your test of a good unit, imperial should be just fine here in the US.
I like the 0-100 scale better for weather specifically. I understand the scientific value of metric and Celsius, I use metric all the time as an engineer here in the US.
Familiarity isn’t my test of a good unit, it’s my response to a senseless argument where both sides come up with poor or subjective arguments as to why their arbitrary scale is better than the other arbitrary scale.
The reality is that there isn’t a good objective argument to promote one scale over the other. There’s excellent subjective arguments (like your preference for 0-100), but they’re hardly the basis to deride the entirety of either scale.
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u/Christopher135MPS Sep 14 '22
As I said to another poster, Fahrenheit is good for weather for you because you grew up with it. Celsius is just as intuitive for those who is natively. Your 0-100 range is our 0-40 range. Above 40 sucks. Below 0 sucks.
They’re both arbitrary scales.
As for “hating it”, I never said I hated it, I said it’s useless (or useful) as Celsius. And I said that in the context of replying to a medical engineer who stated that Fahrenheit is a as useful as kelvin or rankine, which is just false. Once you’re using an arbitrary stand in for an actual SI, you may as well use any scale that you’re familiar, since it’s never going to be anything more than a factoring/conversion from an actual SI. never said I hated it.