Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.
It’s just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.
I’ve lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.
This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.
As someone who has used both and grew up with both I find f to be more suitable for human temps.
There are functional differences, your avg household machines needing set points for a thermostat are WAY fucking nicer to use F with then C. Machines frequently give way too much damn leeway when you use C resulting in inconsistent temp control. It’s god damn annoying.
Otherwise both systems objectively fucking suck at accurately describing the weather outside.
You raise a good point. My thermostat does not support decimal units. So if I turn on the heater to 24C on a cold winter, the temperature range of my heater actually works likes: turn on at 22C, turn off at 26C. Translated, that’s a swing from 72F to 79F. Really annoying.
Obviously they could just make the heater not shit, but I feel like it’s harder to fuck up Fahrenheit whole numbers.
Yes I can. Changing my thermostat by a single degree can be very impactful on my comfort. And on the “too warm side” each additional degree is noticeably less comfortable.
Days with highs of 68F, 69F, and 70F and comparable humidity all feel different to me. Sure, there are more factors at play but holding the rest equal, 1F differences are noticeable.
Also they always forget that on modern digital thermometers, we have decimals, which means that the F scale doesn’t really have a wider range to describe common outside air temperature at all.
Isn’t that just not true? I mean it really couldn’t matter less since both have enough, but there are more numbers (including decimals) between 0-100 than like -20 to 30 (idk what a good C range is.)
It’s just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.
I’ve lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.
This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.
As someone who has used both and grew up with both I find f to be more suitable for human temps.
There are functional differences, your avg household machines needing set points for a thermostat are WAY fucking nicer to use F with then C. Machines frequently give way too much damn leeway when you use C resulting in inconsistent temp control. It’s god damn annoying.
Otherwise both systems objectively fucking suck at accurately describing the weather outside.
You raise a good point. My thermostat does not support decimal units. So if I turn on the heater to 24C on a cold winter, the temperature range of my heater actually works likes: turn on at 22C, turn off at 26C. Translated, that’s a swing from 72F to 79F. Really annoying.
Obviously they could just make the heater not shit, but I feel like it’s harder to fuck up Fahrenheit whole numbers.
I strongly disagree on one key point:
Yes I can. Changing my thermostat by a single degree can be very impactful on my comfort. And on the “too warm side” each additional degree is noticeably less comfortable.
Days with highs of 68F, 69F, and 70F and comparable humidity all feel different to me. Sure, there are more factors at play but holding the rest equal, 1F differences are noticeable.
Depends on whether humidity stays the same or not…
Also they always forget that on modern digital thermometers, we have decimals, which means that the F scale doesn’t really have a wider range to describe common outside air temperature at all.
Isn’t that just not true? I mean it really couldn’t matter less since both have enough, but there are more numbers (including decimals) between 0-100 than like -20 to 30 (idk what a good C range is.)