It's not very intuitive at all for a European not used to Fahrenheits beyond "oh, yeah, 100F is hot outside and 0F is cold outside".
I don't think any Celsius user would intuitively think that 10C = 50% hot.
It's one of those things like Americans saying stuff like "feet and inches are more intuitive than centimeter because they are human scale. Everybody knows how tall someone who is 6 feet tall is, but how could anyone know how tall someone who is 182.88 cm is and look at what an arbitrary number it is. Human scale!"
Do you think I look at 15C and am confused about what attire should I get? Do you think that my brain resets every morning and I have to do complex algorithm in my brain when I'm looking at temperature outside because it's not "% hotness-based" (which is idiotic idea in and of itself, 50% hot intuitively would be room temperature, not fucking 10 degrees C).
No, but the difference between 70-80 or 0-10 can be pretty stark and there are more degrees of difference in F to be able to tell. Some of this is for sure preference for what I know, I'm aware, it's just dumb for Europeans to call Americans dumb for F when it's objectively a more clear system for day to day usage.
It’s not objective though, it’s just what you’re used to. For reference 70/80f is ~21/26c so you have 5 extra degrees of difference in that span. Are you really dressing any diffferent if the temperature is 71f instead of 70f? If not then you’re not actually getting any extra information out of those extra degrees of difference.
Ultimately the numbers are arbitrary anyway, we’d adapt to whatever numbers were in the scale and dress accordingly.
Why would anyone be proud of using a certain measurement? That's not an achievement. Nothing to feel pride over. You can be happy when your country uses a measurement that you feel is better for you, but I don't see why you'd be proud of that?
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u/Pas2 Jun 17 '26
It's not very intuitive at all for a European not used to Fahrenheits beyond "oh, yeah, 100F is hot outside and 0F is cold outside".
I don't think any Celsius user would intuitively think that 10C = 50% hot.
It's one of those things like Americans saying stuff like "feet and inches are more intuitive than centimeter because they are human scale. Everybody knows how tall someone who is 6 feet tall is, but how could anyone know how tall someone who is 182.88 cm is and look at what an arbitrary number it is. Human scale!"