What's Better? Fahrenheit Or Celsius?

[-Flash-]

What's better? Fahrenheit or Celsius? Which one makes the most sense? To me, Fahrenheit makes no sense, why wouldn't you have it at 0 (degrees) at the temperature water freezes?

 

[Banana01]

I can never remember the difference or even which one is in use and where. Like who uses what one? I know 75 degrees is comfortable, and I've been in -30 degrees wind chill, but i dont know what scale im even refering to without looking it up.

So there needs to be an option in your poll of "i dont even know which one im using"

 

[-Flash-]

I can never remember the difference or even which one is in use and where. Like who uses what one? I know 75 degrees is comfortable, and I've been in -30 degrees wind chill, but i dont know what scale im even refering to without looking it up.

So there needs to be an option in your poll of "i dont even know which one im using"

Will do! You've been in -30. I would die. I get cold in 23 (75)

 

[Weeg]

I grew up using Fahrenheit, so I obviously use that. I think that Celsius is way smarter though. The system makes more sense. I understand fahrenheit better, but celsius is way smarter. Who came us with the random number 32* for freezing? 0 makes way more sense.

 

[Cloverr39]

I grew up with Celsius. Fahrenheit makes 0 sense to me. I heard someone once say it was like a 100 degrees outside and I was so confused. I was like: 100°?? I cook my food in near that temperature...

 

[Silviaschicks]

I grew up with Fahrenheit but Celsius is far more useful. The measurements make sense, and most places use it

 

[Windrider]

To me, this is not an either/or situation!

Celsius is far more useful in science and makes more sense from that point of view. Though it is still arbitrary using water as the molecule for the standard, though understandable considering how important water is to life.

Fahrenheit makes a lot of "human" sense, as it is calibrated to our human comfort zones. We know 0 degrees F is very cold and 100 degrees F is very hot. Too far out of this zone is not something we can deal with and we prefer something near the middle.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Lord Kelvin would like a word...

 

[Windrider]

Lord Kelvin would like a word...

Heh. I realized that the moment I posted. I am in the life sciences, but of course Kelvin is the standard for the physical sciences. Because, you know, our puny human scale of measuring things breaks down at the cosmic (and molecular) scale.

But the original post didn't ask about that.

 

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Heh. I realized that the moment I posted. I am in the life sciences, but of course Kelvin is the standard for the physical sciences. Because, you know, our puny human scale of measuring things breaks down at the cosmic (and molecular) scale.

But the original post didn't ask about that.

Eh. It's still interesting.