Waqas
@worqas
Americans are right about measuring temperature in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.
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Diñero
@gryphon
I don't understand why. Celsius is easier to comprehend
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Waqas
@worqas
It's not really. F provides higher resolution and human beings are pretty sensitive to temperature.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
it's 3 sigfigs either way, C provides higher resolution
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Waqas
@worqas
How? Freezing point in Fahrenheit: 32°F Freezing point in Celsius: 0°C Boiling point in Fahrenheit: 212°F Boiling point in Celsius: 100°C 212 – 32 = 180 100 – 0 = 100
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shazow
@shazow.eth
there's this crazy thing called decimals
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Waqas
@worqas
Lol yes. But much research shows humans aren't that good at judging small decimal differences. Hence the higher resolution provided by F in terms of integers is useful.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
So more resolution is good, but more more resolution is bad? I dunno, I'm starting to think Fahrenheit has too much resolution and that 2 sigfigs is more appropriate because humans aren't good at judging small differences. 🙃 I honestly think it's a silly vibes-based meme that doesn't hold up in practice. I've switched between the two systems back and forth, my partner has too as we've lived in different countries. It's all just cope to hang on to a bizarre 32-indexed counting system instead of going to 0-indexed.
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Waqas
@worqas
What I am trying to say is that it's harder to imagine the difference between. 22.7778 C and 23.3333 C than the difference between 73 F and 74 F. It's just how human brains work, we round off things.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Nah, it's harder to imagine the difference between 69.8F and 71.6F than between 21C and 22C. It's just how human brains work. Also why on earth did y'all decide that 70s is a sweet spot for some reason?
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Waqas
@worqas
That's just silly. I chose 70s because that's the avg temperature right now. I used to live in Karachi where temp ranged from 10 to 45 C. That's a diff of 35 for what is actually a very large range when it comes to how the human body perceives it. The same range is 63 in F, almost doubling the integers we use to represent this range, also making is much easier to communicate the smaller and more accurate differences. To use C with decimal points to communicate weather info is just stupid and makes C pointless. Most science uses K. C is for people who like useless consistency.
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