Where do you stand on the great celcius vs farenheit debate?

Question

It's raged on for centuries, I expect it will rage on for centuries after

I personally prefer to hear a tempreture in farenheit - 70 degrees means t-shirt, 60, cold ... 50 really cold .... 80, baking

20, 24 and 30 really doesn't mean much to me

Answer 1

the temperature can give you similar perception if you know the equivalence of farenheit and celcious systems.(F-32)X5/9= C degrees .simple

F60 MEANS....60-32=28X5/9=APPROX. 15 DEGREES C

.,NATURALLY COLD  being lessthan body temperature,which is about 36.9C.

0

Answer 2

It probably depends on what you're used to. I was raised on Farhrenheit, and I can't make heads or tails out of Celsius.

Once I was staying in a Canadian hotel and I could never get the room temperature right because the thermostat was in C.

Answer 3

C

Answer 4

celcius b'cause 0 is freezing point for water

Answer 5

Celcius every time, since it makes basic sense to relate the key temperatures (0 and 100) to the changing states of water: ice to water, water to steam.

Using the word Farenheit is a tribute to an important scientist but trying to fathom what the numbers actually mean is beyond me. This quaint little system is being kept alive by dinosaurs who fear standardization because they can't control it.

Answer 6

This is only a debate in the wasteland known as the USA.  The rest of the world uses celcius and is part of the global situation.

Answer 7

I was educated using Celsius, so 0 = freezing point, that makes sense to me.  Fahrenheit may as well be double dutch, and as far as I am aware only 2 countries still use Fahrenheit as their official means to measure temperature, the USA and Libya...I don't think the debate will rage for centuries, maybe in some countries but not where I live.

But each to their own

Answer 8

I think its an 'age' thing.  Which ever you were taught at school tends to be the one you stick with.  Having said that I learnt in Fahrenheit but can relate better to centigrade.

Answer 9

I'm not sure where I stand on the celcius vs Farenheit debate.  At first when the BBC started using celcius, it also continued to include the Farenheit measurement as well.  Thus the 'older generation' to which I belong had at least some vague idea of what the day-time temperature might be.

Then a friend of mine, a brain-box, told me a simple formula, which gives at least a rough idea of what the Farenheit temperature is when only the centigrate temperature is known or given.

Here's the formula -

Celcius temp. = 14 x 2 = 28 + 30 = 58f

The Farenheit measurement of 58f is only an estimate and could be give or take one degree either way.  But at least it gives us old duffers some idea of what to wear when we go out.  It it's 58f there little point in wearing the Polar Bear coat.  But at the same time, let's not go entirely mad and have the wife wander down the highstreet in a Bikini.

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Answer 10

What great debate?  Most of the world uses Celsius.  Only the US still clings to Fahrenheit and other outdated units of measurement.

Addendum:  Even though I disagree with Helmut (below) I give him a resounding thumbs-up for his use of the word 'sophomoric'.  More erudition is needed on these pages!

Answer 11

I prefer Fahrenheit for the weather - which except for oven temperature settings is almost the only time I am concerned with temperature - but that is mostly because of where I live. For the south east of England 100 degrees fahrenheit is the hottest it could ever feasibly get, and zero degrees is only a bit lower than the minimum it will ever get. So zero to one hundred is a nice range that brackets the extremes.

However, most other people use Celcius, and I am happy enough with it.

The one objection I have is people claiming that Celcius is metric when Fahrenheit is not. That is flatly untrue. The only significance of metric measures occus if units have sub-units, like old UK pounds had shillings and shillings had pence. But neither Celcius nor Fahrenheit have sub-units, so it makes no difference at all. Both scales have a zero and both have a 100. The fact that Celcius's zero and one hundred relate to state changes in water is almost completely a red herring. I just wish Celcius users would not try to promote their cause with spurious claims.

Answer 12

I really don't care. Both are arbitrary.  Neither has a real zero point.  I use kelvin at work and the outside temperature is reported in fahrenheit.  It's not hard to convert between them, so unless you're a total moron you should be comfortable with both.

Answer 13

Celsius , if you ask about inch or cm i say cm , metric

Answer 14

I find it interesting that none of the above answers takes into account the origin of the Fahrenheit scale, which is actually ergonometric (and "metric" as well).  Dr. Fahrenheit constructed his scale with 100° as the normal temperature of blood in the human body, and 0° as the freezing point of blood.  The wide variance in people's body temperature caused difficulty in calibration, so the freezing and boiling points of water came into use as the calibration points, and the scale adjusted for an exact 180° differential between these points, with 212° and 32° being empirically determined.  Note that "normal" body temperature is 98.6° orally, and 99.6° rectally.  this is a variance of only 0.4% from the original definition.

One might also note that the Fahrenheit scale has nearly twice the precision of the Celsius scale.

My vote remains with Fahrenheit and against sophomoric snobbery!

Answer 15

Personally, Celcius makes a lot more sense.  It's all arbitrary anyway, but to set the scale by freezing and boiling points of water, the universal solvent, makes more sense than 32 and 212.  It's like comparing dollars and cents to pounds, shillings and pence.  Why make it more confusing?  

However, I have grown up with metrics.  I was in the States recently and had to keep trying to "translate" the temp back to Celcius.  And the miles back to kilometres.  Metrics make more sense.  That is where most of the world is at.

Answer 16

i like celcius better

24-31 is my comfort zone (74F-90F)

Answer 17

I prefer Celcius for the reasons stated above.

If you want a rough idea to calculate Fahrenheit to Celcius.

deduct 30 then divide by 2.

eg, 70 Fahrenheit to Celcius

70 - 30 = 40/2 = 20Celcius, not exact but in a ball park area, works the other way too.

Answer 18

celsius. It is widely used by the metric system. For not using kelvin they use celcius.

Answer 19

I prefer Celcius since I grew up in Sweden where they use Celcius and I just find it easier to use cuz all you need to remember is that 0 C is freezing point and 100 C is boiling point = )

Answer 20

Well,it depends on how you grow up... I prefer fahrenheit too but I do believe most of the world uses centigrade/celcius.  Its just a matter of what you are comfortable with.  Just remember that 20c is roughly 72f and go form there...

Answer 21

Well if you go almost anywhere else in the world, a person will also say 70, 60, 50,.... 80 degrees has no meaning to me. I beleive the Celcius system is better it has an actual understandable basis.  I have a bachelors in Molecular Biology and I still do not understand the basis for the farenheit system.  The celcius system is easy 0 means water freezes and 100 water boils.  Farenheit at 32 it freezes and at like 212 it boils.

Plus like the entire rest of the world uses it.

Just my view on it.

Answer 22

let's just go to celcius and get it over with.

Answer 23

I am pretty much used to the fahrenheit scale and I believe most people are.  I just wonder if the politicians may one day change it, just to be ....um, progressive.

Answer 24

I can live with either....and 60F or 16C is a comfortable temperature for me!

Answer 25

i don't believe in conforming to everyone else simply to conform...

so until the rest of the world comes up with a good reason to go to Celsius other then it is what we use.. i will stick with F