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I am sorry, but you are wrong, however you are not wrong at what you might expect me to call you out on.
There is nothing inherently superior with F for "habitable" temps, both C and F works fine for that, for me who is used to C, talking about body temps of 37 makes sense to me, for me 98.6 seems completely wrong.
It all boils down to what we are used to.
It's funny how it's supposed to be great to measure "human temperatures", yet 98.6 is normal and 100 is a fever.
It's even sillier than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/01/human-body-temperature-has-decreased-in-united-states.html
I agree that celcius is better, but this is a terrible point. This would be a biological reaction. Different topic.
Terrible point? The body temperature is literally the upper defining point of the scale. Except that Fahrenheit chose that point to be 96, and he was still wrong.
Yes, it uses the the human body in a healthy state to determine a range of habitable temperatures. There is no math involved that is even remotely concerned with temperatures in a sick person. Not my opinion. Fahrenheit factors in general habitability, it doesn't take into consideration something like a specific group of elderly people who's temperature runs low due to low blood pressure.
Whoa that's a lot of being butthurt about nothing.
I'm just saying, if you're going to make a scale that is defined by body temperature, why tf would you make that point 98.6 or 96 instead of 100? The "you need to remember 37" argument doesn't make much sense if you need to remember 98.6 does it?
You are not reading me. I am 100% agreeing with you that the scale is fucking stupid and illogical. I'm trying to point out that it does not, no matter how much you say, consider someone with a virus or illness.
I'm saying to make the point we both agree on, it's valuable to understand this.
You may be shocked to discover that we can also measure the temperature of water in F.
Your talking right and wrong is beside the point. No one scale is superior for any use, strictly speaking. The point is that 1-100 in F relates in an intuitive way to the range of human habitation. That’s a more intuitive thing to base a scale on in my opinion. Now tell me my opinion is wrong, I dare ya!
Do you respond to everything everyone tells you with a complaint that they haven’t already told you it before? This is a discussion. I’m not defending a written doctorate thesis.
C is highly intuitive if you are a water molecule. Absolutely brilliant for those chaps. Wait… I have assumed this whole time you are human. Are you a water molecule?? You never mentioned that before!!
You brought it up in a completely irrelevant post, do you always bring uo irrelevant point in a discussion and get annoyed when people discuss your irreleveant tooic?
It is in fact getting to be a bit of a hobby to mention Fahrenheit’s good points, just to see people wet themselves and complain when their worldview shatters.
My worldview isn't shattered.