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    1. 𝕓𝕠𝕠rian.d.mtsx‏ @bterlson Jan 12
      Replying to @sebmck

      Fahrenheit is an objectively better scale for humans. Fight me.

      5 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    2. BOOlean  👻 🐶 🏳️‍🌈‏ @jamiebuilds Jan 12
      Replying to @bterlson @sebmck

      This is fact. - 0°F is a very very cold day - 100°F is a very very hot day The same in celcius is -17° to 37°

      7 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    3. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
      Replying to @jamiebuilds @thejameskyle @bterlson

      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".

      5 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
    4. 𝕓𝕠𝕠rian.d.mtsx‏ @bterlson Jan 12
      Replying to @sebmck @thejameskyle

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

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
      Replying to @bterlson @thejameskyle

      Again, why is it superior for every day life?

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. 𝕓𝕠𝕠rian.d.mtsx‏ @bterlson Jan 12
      Replying to @sebmck @thejameskyle

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

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    7. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
      Replying to @bterlson @thejameskyle

      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.

      6 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
      Replying to @sebmck @bterlson @thejameskyle

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
      Replying to @wycats @sebmck and

      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?!

      5 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Justin Fagnani‏ @justinfagnani Jan 12
      Replying to @wycats @sebmck and

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

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
      Replying to @justinfagnani @sebmck and

      Water might be important but that doesn't necessarily mean "freezing" and "boiling" are good fixed endpoints. I mean nothing's wrong with those but unlike grams and meters Celsius is just not buying us that much.

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        2. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
          Replying to @wycats @justinfagnani and

          Freezing and boiling can be directly correlated to weather though which is where temperature is most useful. While the weather is never "boiling", the upper limit can be used as a relative reference.

          3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
          Replying to @sebmck @wycats and

          Anecdotally I've found celsius easier to rationalise about when cooking than Fahrenheit. But that could easily be attributed to bias because I've used celsius all my life until now.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
          Replying to @sebmck @justinfagnani and

          When do you need to rationalize temp when cooking?

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        5. Sebastian McKenzie‏Verified account @sebmck Jan 12
          Replying to @wycats @justinfagnani and

          The scale seems more linear when adjusting temperature.

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
          Replying to @sebmck @justinfagnani and

          Why would that be, since the two scales are directly correlated?

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        2. Justin Fagnani‏ @justinfagnani Jan 12
          Replying to @wycats @sebmck and

          Neither is Kelvin, since 0K is pretty much as unfathomable as infinity. I wonder what the smallest difference in temperature is detectable by most humans is?

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        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Jan 12
          Replying to @justinfagnani @sebmck and

          Very tiny, it seems like:https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/30952/how-precisely-can-we-sense-temperature-differences …

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        4. Justin Fagnani‏ @justinfagnani Jan 12
          Replying to @wycats @sebmck and

          Whoa That puts 2C global warming in a new perspective for me. Up to 100x more than we can sense.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Rob Bearman‏ @robbearman Jan 12
          Replying to @wycats @justinfagnani and

          A reasonably scaled measure of air temperature has more day to day value to humans than the freezing point and boiling point of water, both of which have visible attributes. Do you care much to know 75C water? Fahrenheit is better for air temperature.

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