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How is that a better scale? 0 is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point. Seems better to me than, "0 is the temperature of ice, water and ammonium chloride".

When doing science where physical constants are always relevant, Celsius is FAR superior. For every day life, Fahrenheit wins.

Again, why is it superior for every day life?

James touched on it, but essentially it maps temperatures we encounter most often over a more useful numeric range.

How often do you encounter 0 Fahrenheit? Growing up, in the winter it gets below 0C and you know there’s going to be ice outside. In the summer it gets to ~50F.

I also really hate when people conflate units like grams and meters with Celsius. The metric system's main value for humans is that things like kilometers scale easily from things like meters. That entire concept doesn't apply to Celsius.

What's special about the "freezing and boiling point of water"? People act like those temperatures are critical values to encode in 0-100 scale. But why?!

Water's kind of important to humans though, so I get that part. Not sure what other thing is better to measure against.