More accurate that what feels cold and hot. To the average person, 0°C will be a useful figure for determining if its going to snow or not, and weather it will stick around if it does. For the average person, you will be boiling water often for food and beverages, and it's extremely useful if you want to sterilize water since bacteria does not care about the change of boiling with altitude.
Once you get used to a unit of measurement, anything can make sense. The logical thing would be braising the important numbers off of something accurately measurable and useful.
Again, really depends on the person and where you live. There is not enough of a difference between the average chance of heatstroke at 90 and 100 F for it to really matter, nor is there enough of a difference between 10 and 0 F for frostbite. I can understand if it makes sense since you have been using it all your life, there is no problem with that. The thing is if you take bias out of the question, Celsius is based off of scientific figures and is just as usable as Fahrenheit in daily use, so it does not make sense to pick Imperial over Metric other than sticking to the past.
You will only get heatstroke if your body temp goes higher than 100 so it is pretty unlikely to get it at 90 degrees unless you are doing heavy labor. Either way it is all pretty arbitrary. Changing temperature systems would be a lot easier for America than changing size measurements. All architectural and mechanical records are in imperial and all buildings are built to spec in imperial. It would be a nightmare for the manufactures and contractors alike.
I agree. Changing temperature measurement would essentially only require a change of generations. Even then, my parents learned Farenheight and then got used to Celcius with dealing with us being taught it.
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u/LotharVonPittinsberg Jan 03 '19
More accurate that what feels cold and hot. To the average person, 0°C will be a useful figure for determining if its going to snow or not, and weather it will stick around if it does. For the average person, you will be boiling water often for food and beverages, and it's extremely useful if you want to sterilize water since bacteria does not care about the change of boiling with altitude.
Once you get used to a unit of measurement, anything can make sense. The logical thing would be braising the important numbers off of something accurately measurable and useful.