Why Does the U.S. Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius?

[westwall]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

what is hard science

Most science uses Celsius or Kelvin when needed. They use C so info can be shipped and compared worldwide without conversion

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

 

[westwall]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit[/QUOTE]
That is silly, hopefully you are being funny. There are as many decimal points in Celsius as there are in Kelvin and Fahrenheit.[/QUOTE]





No, I'm being very serious. In physics, or chemistry extreme accuracy is required. Celsius is too imprecise.

 

[Likkmee]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

That is silly, hopefully you are being funny. There are as many decimal points in Celsius as there are in Kelvin and Fahrenheit.[/QUOTE]





No, I'm being very serious. In physics, or chemistry extreme accuracy is required. Celsius is too imprecise.[/QUOTE]
OK. I suppose you find decimal points too confusing ?
It's far beter to use 1/78986 plus 37/64

 

[HenryBHough]

Anti-Fahrenheitists prefer doing it the French Way.

 

[alang1216]

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

Science is ALWAYS objective, if it is subjective it is not science. Simple. Some things are harder to measure, e.g., psychology vs physics, but they are never subjective.

 

[Frannie]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

what is hard science

Most science uses Celsius or Kelvin when needed. They use C so info can be shipped and compared worldwide without conversion

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

Oh I thought you were a geologist who cracked rocks with your head

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees

Haha...WHAT?!?!

So, if someone tells you it is 74 degrees outside, are you like, "Oh, thats nice!"...but when they tell you it is 73 degrees outside, you're like, "Fuck that! There's no way I'm going outside!"

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

Well that might be the most absurd thing i have ever heard anyone say.

Kids: if you need "precision", you will be using decimal points. And yes, both scales are just as accurate as one another.

 

[westwall]

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

Science is ALWAYS objective, if it is subjective it is not science. Simple. Some things are harder to measure, e.g., psychology vs physics, but they are never subjective.

No, it's not. Geology, physics, chemistry. Those are objective. They are measurable.
Sociology, climatology, psychology (with the exception of industrial organizational), are not. Thus they are subjective, hence soft/inexact sciences.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

Science is ALWAYS objective, if it is subjective it is not science. Simple. Some things are harder to measure, e.g., psychology vs physics, but they are never subjective.

No, it's not. Geology, physics, chemistry. Those are objective. They are measurable.
Sociology, climatology, psychology (with the exception of industrial organizational), are not. Thus they are subjective, hence soft/inexact sciences.

Also utterly absurd. Climatology is exact , objective science. No, you arent going to "hope" into existence an average temperature or a running mean temperature. Using the same data and methods, you will get the same results. Every time. Due to chaos, margins of error in predictions become larger over time. This is also true of chemistry and physics. Which is an absurd thing to say in itself, as all physical science is just made up of subfields of physics. Chemistry is just a branch of physics.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The Fahrenheit scale was devised by German scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724 and, in 1742, a Swedish astronomer named Andres Celsius came up with a less unwieldy system based on multiples of 10, which is the system used today in most of the world. PIXABAY

Why Does the U.S. Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius?

We use thes archaic forms of measurement because we are a former British colony full of intransigent, lazy minded people.

There's your answer.

 

[westwall]

Hard science/exact science, is any science that is objective, rather than subjective.

Science is ALWAYS objective, if it is subjective it is not science. Simple. Some things are harder to measure, e.g., psychology vs physics, but they are never subjective.

No, it's not. Geology, physics, chemistry. Those are objective. They are measurable.
Sociology, climatology, psychology (with the exception of industrial organizational), are not. Thus they are subjective, hence soft/inexact sciences.

Also utterly absurd. Climatology is exact , objective science. No, you arent going to "hope" into existence an average temperature or a running mean temperature. Using the same data and methods, you will get the same results. Every time. Due to chaos, margins of error in predictions become larger over time. This is also true of chemistry and physics. Which is an absurd thing to say in itself, as all physical science is just made up of subfields of physics. Chemistry is just a branch of physics.

No it ain't, cupcake. Anytime a science refers to consensus, it is no longer an exact science. When opinions are the goalposts, it ain't objective.

But those are facts, and we all know you don't do facts

 

[Mindful]

The Fahrenheit scale was devised by German scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724 and, in 1742, a Swedish astronomer named Andres Celsius came up with a less unwieldy system based on multiples of 10, which is the system used today in most of the world. PIXABAY

Why Does the U.S. Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius?

We use thes archaic forms of measurement because we are a former British colony full of intransigent, lazy minded people.

There's your answer.

Yeah. So lazy, we ruled the world.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

Your math skills suck, but everything else you said was on point. You quoted my post where I said each degree Celsius is equal to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, 212 - 32 = 180/10 = 1.8.degrees

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

^If you're an American and you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country about the weather, you've probably been a little confused when he or she says that the afternoon temperature is a nice 21 degrees. To you, that might sound like a chilly winter day, but to them, it's a pleasantly warm springtime temperature.

That's because virtually every other country in the rest of the world uses the Celsius temperature scale, part of the metric system, which denotes the temperature at which water freezes as 0 degrees, and the temperature at which it boils as 100 degrees. But the U.S. and a few other holdouts – the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Belize and Palau – cling to the Fahrenheit scale, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. That means that the 21 degrees C temperature that we previously mentioned is the equivalent of a balmy 70 degrees F in the U.S.

The persistence of Fahrenheit is one of those puzzling American idiosyncrasies, the equivalent of how the U.S. uses the word soccer to describe what the rest of the planet calls football. So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer, except perhaps inertia. Americans generally loathe the metric system – this 2015 poll found that just 21 percent of the public favored converting to metric measures, while 64 percent were opposed.

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

OTOH, you do have metric. I've noticed in Target, for instance, the bedding is also listed in metres and centimetres.

And in French!

That must be why it's illegal to tear off the tags.

That's one of the biggest misconceptions out there. Read the tag! It say that it is illegal to tear off the tags unless you are the consumer.

It's a joke.

Toy you it is a joke. To most people, they believe it is dead serious that you cannot cut the tags off of a mattress.

 

[fncceo]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

OTOH, you do have metric. I've noticed in Target, for instance, the bedding is also listed in metres and centimetres.

And in French!

That must be why it's illegal to tear off the tags.

That's one of the biggest misconceptions out there. Read the tag! It say that it is illegal to tear off the tags unless you are the consumer.

It's a joke.

Toy you it is a joke. To most people, they believe it is dead serious that you cannot cut the tags off of a mattress.

I only joke about deadly serious things.

 

[Mindful]

The Celsius scale is too large as each is equivalent to 1.8 degrees Farenheit.

Liters are too small, as are kilometers and kilograms. Think about filling up your car and it taking 80 liters. Distances work better than kilometers. Everyone would love to weigh 75 kilos but the range is too wide. .

Liquid measure are

Get a grip Goldilocks. The Celsius scale is too large (can you tell the difference between 69 and 71 degrees Farenheit) and liters are too small (they're approximately a quart). Meters are about a yard. It would probably take the US only a week to get used to a new system.

Each degree of Celsius is approximately 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, it is not as precise a measurement as Fahrenheit.

In science accuracy is everything. That's why the hard sciences will continue to use Kelvin and Fahrenheit

Your math skills suck, but everything else you said was on point. You quoted my post where I said each degree Celsius is equal to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, 212 - 32 = 180/10 = 1.8.degrees

In the end, it comes down to: I'm either hot or cold.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer,

There is no mystery, the decision to go with the english system today is mostly military and based largely on how difficult it makes both industrial and military espionage against us...
... in order to both steal and use American technology countries need both the metric system and english system in use requiring schools to teach it and factories to reproduce it meaning countries would have to run and pay for a 2 tier system where as here in the US we just use one of the many allies who already have the metric system in place to develop products and while converting a product from metrics to the english system is easy, it is in some cases impossible to do the reverse, [the skin on one of the U.S.bombers [b-52?] was or is 1/52 of an inch, everything else made the bomber unsafe due to weight and maneuverability]...
...the soviets once captured a U.S. b-29 and had to break down the plane into it's over 100,000 parts and then copy them exactly piece by piece, by the time they were done we were already 2 upgrades ahead...these "facts" came to me years ago so you may want to check them for accuracy but the point is an accurate one.

 

[fncceo]

So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world? There doesn't seem to be a logical answer,

There is no mystery, the decision to go with the english system today is mostly military and based largely on how difficult it makes both industrial and military espionage against us...
... in order to both steal and use American technology countries need both the metric system and english system in use requiring schools to teach it and factories to reproduce it meaning countries would have to run and pay for a 2 tier system where as here in the US we just use one of the many allies who already have the metric system in place to develop products and while converting a product from metrics to the english system it is in some cases impossible to do the reverse, the skin on one of the U.S.bombers [b-52?] was or is 1/52 of an inch, everything else made the bomber unsafe due to weight and maneuverability...
...the soviets once captured a U.S. b-29 and had to break down the plane into it's over 100,000 parts and then copy them exactly piece by piece, by the time they were done we were already 2 upgrades ahead...these "facts" came to me years ago so you may want to check them for accuracy but the point is an accurate one.

Problem solved ...

 

[cnm]

So why is it that the U.S. uses a different temperature scale, and why doesn't it switch to be consistent with the rest of the world?

How can one be exceptional if one is not?