• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    F describes the temperature scale that humans interact with much better than C does.

    Only because you grew up with it.

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

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      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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            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?

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              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

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                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?

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        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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          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

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        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.

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            1 year ago

            Not nearly as hard as you are working to represent F in chat about personal preference

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              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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          1 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