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[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I think the reason people are saying that Fahrenheit "feels" right is because we use a base 10 number system. 1-10 and 0%-100% feel right to us because of this. If you somehow knew nothing about each temperature unit, but you did know base 10, I feel like Fahrenheit would be more intuitive. Obviously if you grew up with Celsius that would feel normal.

Disclaimer: I feel like the US needs to adopt metric already. It's so much better.

[-] mcSibiss@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Use the same logic to use km/h then.

0 to 100 is better than 0 to 60.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

60mph/97kmh is not that fast, though. 90mph/157kmh is pretty fast.

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