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

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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
a person

so is 32
 
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.
 
celsius. It is widely used by the metric system. For not using kelvin they use celcius.
 
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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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