• @Fal
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    21 year ago

    I have only had the temperature described to me in celcius so Fahrenhite makes no sense to me.

    What doesn’t make sense to you. You can think of F as a percentage of how hot it is. 0 is 0% hot, meaning cold as fuck. 100 is 100% hot, hot as fuck. Things in the middle are are in the middle. 85 is 85% hot.

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        11 year ago

        Why do you just assume 50% is the ideal?

        • If 0 F is 0 % hot, and 100 F is 100 % hot; shouldn’t 50 F be the Goldilocks ideal of neither too hot or too cold at 50 %?

          And if 50 F isn’t the Goldilocks ideal, then where on the scale is it?

          • @Fal
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            11 year ago

            That would depend on personal preference. Somewhere around the 70-80 mark most likely.

            You’re assuming humans have no preference for it being hot or cold. That’s the only way 50% would make more sense. But most people prefer it warm

            • My assumption was that a temperature scale for the human experience would place the ideal temperature around the middle, and not towards too hot. Would it improve such a scale if the 0 F was closer where 20 or 30 is currently, so that 70-80 is more centered? Is 0 F the perfect point for where it’s unacceptably cold for a human, or could it have been shifted up or down the scale?

    • @BluesF@feddit.uk
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      131 year ago

      And -5 farenheit is… just a bit colder than fuck? I understand what temperatures I start feeling cold perfectly well in Celsius, I know roughly when I’ll need a jacket, when I’ll need a hat and scarf… Farenheit tells me nothing because I don’t know about it. Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”? It’s most likely never going to reach 0°F where I live, and it won’t reach 100°F outside of very rare summer days… Beyond those extremes it’s not useful to me because I don’t know it.

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        11 year ago

        Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”?

        This is going to vary depending on everyone. I start wearing a jacket at around 60. My wife starts at like 75. So neither system is going to be able to tell you that information

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      61 year ago

      Checks temp converter

      Lol. 80F is approximately 26C. That’s considered mild where I live.

      So yeah. Makes fuckall sense to people who’ve grown up with temperature mentioned in Celcius everywhere.

      • @Fal
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        11 year ago

        How does this refute anything in my comment? 80% is fairly “mild”. When 100% i “as hot as it can be”, and 0 is “as cold as it can be”, 80% is a pretty good temperature.

      • @Fal
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        11 year ago

        Are percentages too hard for you?

          • @Fal
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            11 year ago

            I WILL die on this hill. But preference is just what you do with the information, not the usefulness of the scale. 0-100 is the scale. Whether you wear jackets at 50-60 or 60-70 doesn’t mean that the scale isn’t objectively better.

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        11 year ago

        102%, aka hot as fuck. The whole point is that it describes human environmental temperature. If you’re dealing with melting metals, that’s a scientific application and C would be the better choice