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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @benthecarman 18h \ parent \ on: What else are you a "maximalist" of? AskSN
It's a measure of how hot it is outside from 0-100, Celsius is how hot water is from 0-100. Fahrenheit is a more human scale
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 8h
it being a more human scale isn't intrinsic. it's purely due to what you're used to using.
I grew up in a Celsius country, and Fahrenheit is totally unintuitive.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 18h
I agree on 100 being a more human scale but 32 seems arbitrary. I can’t help but wonder why did Dr. Fahrenheit pick 32 instead of 0 for freezing point of water.
I’m looking for a temp scale that uses 0 as freezing point of water but 100 Fahrenheit because that’s reasonably hot for humans.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @benthecarman 18h
Who cares about 32 being the freezing point, how often do you reference it
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 18h
All the time when I lived in the UK. I constantly had to do conversions.
0° C was cold outside and that made more sense on a human scale but 32° C was like 90° F and that doesn’t make sense on a human scale.
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