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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by chrismcb on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:49PM (#43449296)
If you are used to Celsius, sure. But the point the op was making is Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind and Celsius with the changes of the state of water. Your average person didn't really care what temperature water boils at, just that it is hot.
Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by nukem222 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:59PM (#43449366)
> Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind

If there was a design, it's not clear what the intent was. It seems about twice as precise as it needs to be (i certainly can't perceive 1F°—for all intents and purposes, 70 feels about the same as 69 and 71) and doesn't seem to correlate to any scale that is immediately based off the needs of humans. At least compared to celcius.

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by throwaway657656 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:14PM (#43449454)
Farenheit set 100F to be his wife's internal temperature. 0F was the freezing point of brine and humans are mostly brine. F is human centric.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by technothrasher on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:27PM (#43449559)
He says in his original paper that the top point of his reference scale is 96, not 100 for the point where "Alcohol expands up to this point when it is held in the mouth or under the armpit of a living man in good health". He originally based his scale on 12, and then got more precise by increasing each division by two several times, ending up with 96.
Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by tremon on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:25PM (#43449537)
So basically, Fahrenheit chose 100°F to be the temperate when he gets hard and 0°F to be the temperature when his wife gets hard?
Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by timschmidt on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:07PM (#43449408)
This is very interesting, because I absolutely can feel one degree F difference in house temperature.

I wonder if using a lower resolution scale dulls the senses like other forms of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by nukem222 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:09PM (#43449420)
I live in the US and can't change my thermostat, so I don't think that's it.

I'm sure I could feel the difference if i split myself between two rooms with one degree difference. I just don't think this is a useful granularity—I typically move the thermostat by 2-5 degrees at a time.

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:37PM (#43449917)
0F .. 100F is about the range of temperatures a human living on earth could reasonably expect to experience without deliberate adventuring. It's not a precise range - plenty of people live in Doha (way above 100F) and in Alberta (way below 0F) - but it's a pretty reasonable approximation.
Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by djtango on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:55PM (#43450016)
I'm not convinced the people of Doha or Alberta would consider their day to day lives adventures
Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:06PM (#43450608)
My comment ends with a note that "it's a reasonable approximation".

The percentage of global population where the 0F..100F range is not a reasonable approximation of the temperature range they will experience is small. It's not perfect - no such range could, when humans live almost everywhere on the planet. But it's not bad ...

Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by cyberax on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:30PM (#43449850)
No, Fahrenheit was not designed with "humans in mind".

Neither 0F nor 100F are anything special for humans. It's "very cold" long before 0F and "very hot" long before 100F. 50F is nothing special either.

Room temperature is 72F.