• zik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All these arguments don’t really have any effect in reality. As someone born in Australia everyone is super comfortable with Celsius and the problems you describe just don’t exist because in the end it’s really just what you’re used to.

    To me Fahrenheit seems incredibly awkward but then I wasn’t brought up using it.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah I absolutely recognize that what you’re used to or brought up on is gonna have a huge impact on which system you prefer. That being said, I think a Fahrenheit user would have a harder time switching to Celsius, than a Celsius user would switching to Fahrenheit, at least for normal day-to-day weather applications. And for some of the same reasons that people prefer metric units in general - it’s more granular, has more resolution, is base 10 (for this application), etc.