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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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XM34@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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amio@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Except it was calibrated on someone who was running a fever, so it fails at even that.

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