• businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    exactly! whenever anyone says imperial units are “more intuitive” and better reflect “how it feels to humans”, i can only think: obviously, you grew up with it. that’s what you know.

    no matter what measurement system you were raised on, it will feel intuitive to you and reflect how you as a human experience the world because you are used to measuring things in those units. having said that, i’d much rather we used metric if for nothing else than the ease of unit conversion.

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      10 months ago

      When it comes to Fahrenheit, there is some merit to the idea - 0 to 30 is a small scale compared to 0 to 100, and unlike Imperial vs. Metric, Celcius has no base 10 system that makes any more sense than Fahrenheit does. . The opposite is true of kilometers and miles - kilometers is more refined since each unit is a shorter distance.

      I’d prefer the Metric system, but Farenheit over Celcius for temperature measurement.

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        10 months ago

        The fixed points (for 0 and 100) are much more logical though and can be used to accurately recreate the scale anywhere (well… it’ll be slightly off on higher altitude since boiling temperature changes but it’s still not far off).

        0°C = water freezes (= it’s snowing)

        100°C = water boils

        meanwhile:

        0°F = the coldest night Mr Fahrenheit experienced, thinking it couldn’t get any colder than that

        100°F = Mr Fahrenheit’s own body temperature (he had a slight fever apparently)

        How would you recreate that??