[3solarmasses]

Exactly. Very few people get this. Fahrenheit is better for communicating temperatures in daily life.

Plus we can be more precise in our language due to the expanded scale. e.g. We can say 62 degrees F, rather than 16.6667 degrees C.

[shawabawa3]

> Exactly. Very few people get this. Fahrenheit is better for communicating temperatures in daily life.

Literally the entire rest of the world disagrees with you

I've never needed a less than 1 degree unit for describing temperature, except in scientific contexts, where using 2 decimal places is fine

I don't see why "100 ~= body temperature (with fever)" is a useful scale point. Or why 32F = freezing is useful in daily life

[athenot]

Normal body temperature was defined† in Celsius, at 37ºC; this explains the decimal when used in Fahrenheit (98.6F). So even that argument of convenience doesn't hold.

† Yes everyone's baseline temperature is slightly different, but that just makes the decimal on the Fahrenheit scale look even sillier. And fever definitions are also keyed off of Celsius: 37º to 38º is "low grade". Sure, it's an arbitrary convention but it's the one adopted around the world, including in the US (98.6 to 100.4).

[shawabawa3]

Whether it's off by a degree or 2 doesn't matter (as you said body temperature varies)

But why is 100 ~= body temperature more useful than 100 = boiling water?

Why is 50 being kind of cold more useful than 10?

I don't get this "Fahrenheit numbers are more useful/convenient/understandable" argument

[tantalor]

As a human person, temperature relative to my body is more useful than the boiling point of water at ~100 kpa.

Anyways, in Titan's atmosphere water boils at ~110 C, so much for "100 = boiling water".

[perilunar]

Absolutely. Those of us outside the US have terrible trouble with temperatures. We're constantly confused. Just the other day I was trying to measure something to a tenthousandth of a degree and I said to my friend "I wish we used Fahrenheit — they only have integer temperatures".