Yes. Just as feet and inches are for height. And miles are for distance. And pints and quarts for liquids. And ounces and fluid ounces.

We can make as many of these exceptions as we want, and the only clear winner of the "most ubiquitous use of imperial" has to be inches on porn sites.

But what objectively is the truth is: the rest of the world, save for Liberia and the other place use metric for everything, with the UK being another strange holdout, use metric. International communication is less and less America-centric, and Fahrenheit is American hieroglyphs for us Europeans, because metric is very nice a system as well:

10°C is cold and 20°C warm. 0°C is very cold, 30°C very hot. 20+ is T-shirt territory, <10 is for a winter jacket. Two sentences to catch 80% of the nuance, tops.

To become an expert in Celsius you only need to know 0-40. For Fahrenheit? 0-200 from what I gather. Celsius is very coarse, so every degree means something 15 is noticeably less cold than 14. Everyone has their t-shirt temperature. Mine's 17-18, someone else's 14-15.

Also, when dealing with the weather, you never use decimals. Not needed. A gimmick. As with most other things. The only time you use them is when you look for a fever. 35-37 is normal body temp, 37+ a fever, when measured under the armpit (which seems most common).

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

I used to say this exact thing. I decided to be scientific about it and test it by learning Celsius and trying it for a few months.

I have not gone back. It has been seven years. All my devices are still reporting Celsius to me.

I was enjoying the process just because of the novelty of learning a new temperature scale, but when I experienced my first winter with Celsius I knew I’d never go back.

0 being freezing is so much more useful than you’d think. 23°F doesn’t really mean anything to me, but -5°C means “as far below freezing as 5°C is above freezing.” It inherently provides context without having to do math.

Also, the degrees being “larger” makes them more meaningful and thus easier to learn.

If you want to try what I did, here are some useful steps. First, this rhyme: “30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is chilly, 0 is ice.”

More importantly, here’s the heuristic I came up with: memorize the 10s. So 10°C = 50°F, 20°C = 68°F, 30°C = 86°F (easy to remember 68 and 86 because they’re reversed). Then memorize the 5s. You can always find them because they’re 9°F off from the 10s. 25°C = 77°F for example.

Once you have those points memorized, you can go up and down from them using 2°F per 1°C. It’s really 1.8, but since at most you’ll be 2°C away from a certain value, the most you’ll ever be off is 0.4°F. So if the weather app tells you it’s 22°C, you start at 68°F and add 4 to get to 72°F (it is actually 71.6 but who cares?). If it says 23°C, you start at 77°F and subtract 4 to get 73°F (actually 73.4, but again who cares?).

I used this heuristic until I didn’t really need it anymore. I still use it if someone asks me the temperature, because I live in the US and no one knows Celsius. So I quickly convert and give them their Fahrenheit value. But at this point I don’t really need to do so personally.

And like I said, I much prefer Celsius even for describing weather. It has really taught me how arbitrary both scales are. A co-worker of mine said, “Yeah but 100° sounds hot.” I replied, “The first time a colleague in India told me it was 40° outside, that sounded hot.” I didn’t need to convert it (didn’t bother memorizing that value because I never see it where I live), it just sounded hot because I knew the scale. (It’s 104°F for the record.)

But as I touched on, I was shocked by how much the freezing point being zero mattered. It makes sub-freezing temperature values so useful. I hadn’t expected that, growing up I knew 32°F was freezing and was so used to that nonsense that I didn’t realize what I was missing until I experienced it.

I don't understand how this is the case. I feel like it would only be perceived as being true by growing up with the system. Like i guess I don't know where you grew up so I shouldn't really make this assertion but I feel like most people from countries that use Celsius have probably never thought "hey I think it's weird that 30 degrees is considered really hot."

I guess you could make the same argument that people living in the United States don't complain about water boiling at 212 degrees but that also doesn't address the compatibility issue

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

It's just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.

I've lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.

This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.

It is demonstrably not. You are more familiar with it, and you loathe decimals, so you are of the personal opinion that it is. But that is all it is, your personal opinion about it.

"demonstrably better"
Well go on then, I would like you to demonstrate to me how it is better.

It's just arbitrary numbers. It only seems better to you because you grew up with it.

"demonstrably"? You don't have the self-reflection capacity to realize that you only think it's better because that's what is used wherever you happen to live? And to realize that it's the exact same for everybody on the planet?

Why tho?

It’s interesting to me that the only people who advocate for Fahrenheit over Celsius in any circumstances are those who grew up using it, whereas those who prefer Celsius over Fahrenheit are from both places where Celsius and Fahrenheit are used. I’m yet to see an example of someone saying “I grew up with Celsius but Fahrenheit is so much better because…”

demonstrably

so do it

Which units are best doesn't matter: the point is, nobody else uses standard units anymore, apart from a couple oddball countries, and only one of them - North Korea - isn't trying to extricate itself from it.

Everybody else tries to be a part of the world's technical and scientific communities by speaking the same language, but of course America has to be different. Because of course it does... And it's tiring if you ask me.

I'm an American with a tenuous grasp of the C scale and even I know this is BS.