What's Better? Fahrenheit Or Celsius?

[EliteTempleton]

Grew up with Fahrenheit spent a total of about 3 years in Celsius countries.
I like that 0 is freezing vs random 32 but I like the fine tuning of Fahrenheit as adding a degree or 2 is usually enough vs the bigger jumps with Celsius:
We had a heated electric floor as our apartment heat source in Asia and it was impossible to get the place comfortable, always a Celsius degree too warm or cold. After a few weeks we bought a Fahrenheit space heater with a fan unit, set the floor temp below the "burning feet" setting and used the space heater to fine tune to comfort. No more wearing summer sandals required to keep our ears warm.

 

[azurbanclucker]

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.

Kelvin is for the hardcore. F/C works for most "normies". Just depends on whether you wanna measure based on relative air temp (F is better) or based off of water states (C is built on this). At the end fo the day, google and my phone can translate, so I just roll with it.

 

[Battlepants]

Fahrenheit for human related things (weather, house temperature, cooking)
Celsius for machine related things (computer temperature)

It's just the particular system I was brought up with for the specific things.

 

[Silviaschicks]

I think Celsius is better for cooking because water boils at 100