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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If your example cannot be proven on any existing person I’d argue it’s hardly relevant to our reality.

possibly? Arguably you could still make the case that the existing range of 0-100f is more pleasant, and arguably nicer to use. But you would have to either find someone uniquely adapted to both systems, or you would have to do a lot of independent study on how humans interact with numbers and ranges of numbers. In order to find a specific answer it’s going to be quite hard.

intuition is bullshit anyway, it’s highly predicated on previous experience and an existing knowledge base, so i feel like that’s kind of arguing “well a race car driver drives good, so why don’t normal drivers drive good” kind of territory.

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Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, which is why most people here in favor of Celcius argue that Fahrenheit isn’t, in fact, more intuitive and therefore more suited to describe the weather. Both are arbitrary, both can be learned and used very easily, the only difference is what you’re used to.

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- KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yeah, but i think arguing that celsius is “more intuitive” when the one primary advantage outside of science is that it lines up with water relatively nicely compared to fahrenheit, is like, ok.
  
  32f and 212f and 0c and 100c aren’t really all that substantially different as far as the general use case goes.
  
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  - Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    arguing that celsius is “more intuitive”
    
    Nobody is arguing that though.
    
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    KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    which is why most people here in favor of Celcius argue that Fahrenheit isn’t, in fact, more intuitive and therefore more suited to describe the weather.
    
    hmm.
    
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