• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    I think the focus of this is just where the origins of the units are derived. Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range, Celsius was invented based on the liquid range of water, and Kelvin was invented based on when matter stops

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      8 months ago

      Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range…

      0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!

      You’re talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That’s all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.

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      8 months ago

      The focus of it is what you are used to.
      All scales are basically created equal - they must be, since they measure the same thing and scale the same way. (No pun intended.)
      The only difference there can ever be between C/K/F (or R for that matter) is multiplying by one constant and/or adding another.

      Yanks use Fahrenheit, grow up with it, and see it used every day. Therefore it is intuitive and logical. To them.
      The vast majority of people on Earth - about 95% - actually don’t, so it isn’t.

      That makes the phrasing and underlying assumption pretty characteristically American, and tempting to poke some gentle fun at.