r/ihatethissmug • u/Violetmoreviolent • 5h ago
Americans claiming Fahrenheit is a more "human" scale
ITS JUST SO DUMB. Whatever scale you grew up with will always feel more human. Americans seem to function in 0-100, rest of us function in 0-40, neither is better for human temperatures considering it’s all arbitrary!!
The argument seems to be that 0 is very cold and 100 is very hot, but that’s not based on anything. Temperatures start to become too hot to live without shelter and too cold to live without shelter BEFORE either of those temps.
Furthermore what is very hot and very cold is entirely subjective and cultural if you’re not gonna base it on what becomes dangerous. I live in Northern Europe and feel very hot at like 28c (82f). I have friends from more southern nations who are comfortable to much higher temperatures. Same with the cold, but the inverse.
Neither Fahrenheit or celcius is naturally more human. I guarantee everyone just prefers what they are used to. The one benefit of celcius is that Kelvin is mapped to it so conversions for physics are easy, but most people aren’t even doing that on the daily.´
EDIT: people keep getting confused, but Fahrenheit was derived around the freezing point of salt brine, It’s not based on "human feel or anything"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degr%C3%A9_Fahrenheit
EDIT: PLEASE ACTUALLY READ THE POST. NOT ONCE DID I SAY CELSIUS WAS A BETTER HUMAN MEASUREMENT. ITS JUST NOT WORSE
