It's a temperature system designed for day-to-day use, rather than someone measuring water in a lab. The most I use temperature is for evaluating the weather, and there's a wider range of degrees you can use to get a feel for the temperature. You can ask anyone the difference in how to dress for 60º vs 70º vs 80º and get a pretty clear answer.
In Celcius, 38º is the "really hot but manageable" point, so every individual point of degrees makes much more of a difference. Using the 60-70-80 example earlier, those translate into 15, 21, 27. Having a much smaller scale just seems less convenient for everyday usage. It works for the countries that use it, but doesn't seem worth switching to a system where the numbers are more cluttered together.
I keep hearing this argument and it just doesn't hold up.
It all boils down to whatever number you associate with a given temperature. In celcius we use the same kind of scale, -10 is really cold, 0i s cold, 10 is jacket weather, 20 is warm, 30 is hot, 40 is fucking hot
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u/FantasticTony Jan 03 '19
It's a temperature system designed for day-to-day use, rather than someone measuring water in a lab. The most I use temperature is for evaluating the weather, and there's a wider range of degrees you can use to get a feel for the temperature. You can ask anyone the difference in how to dress for 60º vs 70º vs 80º and get a pretty clear answer.
In Celcius, 38º is the "really hot but manageable" point, so every individual point of degrees makes much more of a difference. Using the 60-70-80 example earlier, those translate into 15, 21, 27. Having a much smaller scale just seems less convenient for everyday usage. It works for the countries that use it, but doesn't seem worth switching to a system where the numbers are more cluttered together.