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Well? What form of measurement do you prefer/are most comfortable with?

I choose Fahrenheit.

Unfortunately, I have grown up on Farenheit, and it would be hard for me to change. However, I think that we do need to standardize to Celsius. Or possibly Kelvin.

Unfortunately, I have grown up on Farenheit, and it would be hard for me to change. However, I think that we do need to standardize to Celsius. Or possibly Kelvin.

I agree.

Or Kelvins, just because I have to be diffrent!:D

While I grew up on Farenheit, I prefer Celsius. It's just so miuch easier to remember. But then again, I have grown to love the oddball status Americans have in the world of weights and measures.

I've been making an effort to master both. I just use a quick conversion for either: (degF-32)/2 or (degC*2)+32

Celsius, it's easy: water freezes at zero degrees and boils at 100. ;)

Celcius makes more sense, but Fahrenheit seems to correspond to most human life better. We seem to live between 0 and 100 (F), at least in most places.

being American, I naturally like to use good ol' fashioned fahrenheit.

Farenheit. When it comes to something as arbitrary as "Do you think I'll need a jacket today?", an arbitrary scale fits it best.

Celcius should only be used for sciencey type stuffs.

Celcius should only be used for sciencey type stuffs.
I'd prefer Kelvin for the science stuff. It's better to use absolute zero for reference.

Farenheit. When it comes to something as arbitrary as "Do you think I'll need a jacket today?", an arbitrary scale fits it best.

Celcius should only be used for sciencey type stuffs.

Good point. I grew up with Celsius, but I'm really indifferent. I suggest Fahrenheit for Biology and general living purposes, Celsius for Chemistry, and Kelvin for Physics.

being American, I naturally like to use good ol' fashioned fahrenheit.
Yeah, it's pretty cool how we're the only country in the world that doesn't use celsius or the metric system.

I use Fahrenheit for normal life, it's a lot simpler that way
And Celsuis at science class

as it always is in America

I am most familiar with Fahrenheit, but prefer Celcius, since I loathe the Imperial system. I just need to work on getting used to it, since in the U.S. we adamantly stick to the less practical alternative to the metric system. I actually should begin doing that at all...

I prefer Celsius, and I'm most comfortable with Fahrenheit. Fortunately, I can convert quickly.

I've been making an effort to master both. I just use a quick conversion for either: (degF-32)/2 or (degC*2)+32
That's an approximate conversion. Probably a whole lot easier, though, than (degF-32)/1.8--the actual conversion.

SI units all the way.

Jumping on the "who wants to be like everyone else" bandwagon and sticking with Imperial measurements. Though I do have a soft spot for Kelvin.

I'm all for America doing its own thing, but the whole measurement system is kinda out there. I'm just getting to the point where I can think in meters and degrees Celcius thanks to my Chemistry and Physics classes. Being an American, Fahrenheit obviously comes easier but I would prefer a switch to Celcius. Kelvin is good but impractical for everyday use. The whole power-of-ten/water thing is good.

I think in Fahrenheit, just as I think in American or Imperial measurements. Given a short time, I can usually do conversions, though when you grow up buying gas in gallons, being measured in pounds, ounces, feet, and inches, and thinking that 30 degrees is painfully cold rather than balmy, you tend to get used to the American system. I suppose that if America decided to switch to the metric system for real, I would go along with it, but for me, I will still clock my speed in miles per hour and set my thermostat to 68 degrees (or 20 degrees Celsius...68 degrees Celsius is way too damn hot.)

The only thing I buy by the liter is soda, and even then I usually buy it in 20-ounce bottles.

its just like asking which do you prefer: meters or feet...which ever system you grew up on is obviously your preference. I for one find imperial easier to judge (ie: 6 feet i can tell what that is without a thought but 1.8 meters is a bit sketchy)
personally i feel imperial makes no logical sense but easier to visualize while metric makes COMPLETE logical sense but is jibberish to many.
P.S. i think we should convert to metric time as well lol it just makes so much sense
btw i am all for celsius

its just like asking which do you prefer: meters or feet...which ever system you grew up on is obviously your preference. I for one find imperial easier to judge (ie: 6 feet i can tell what that is without a thought but 1.8 meters is a bit sketchy)
personally i feel imperial makes no logical sense but easier to visualize while metric makes COMPLETE logical sense but is jibberish to many.
P.S. i think we should convert to metric time as well lol it just makes so much sense
btw i am all for celcius

its just like asking which do you prefer: meters or feet...which ever system you grew up on is obviously your preference. I for one find imperial easier to judge (ie: 6 feet i can tell what that is without a thought but 1.8 meters is a bit sketchy)
personally i feel imperial makes no logical sense but easier to visualize while metric makes COMPLETE logical sense but is jibberish to many.
P.S. i think we should convert to metric time as well lol it just makes so much sense
btw i am all for celcius

oops sorry all

I'm gonna go with the Rankine meself lol. Actually Celsius/Farenheit Work equally well for me,, and if I';m doing actually technical work Kelvin
(Rankine is to Farenheit, as Kelvin is to Celsius)

Forum's f-ing up again :mad:

Celcius just because I'm used to it. Farenheit always seems so damned hot...

I feel more comfortable with Farenheit particularly because I'm American. I can recgonize more easily the numbers when it comes to Celsius because it[water]freezes at 0 and boils at 100.

Celsius, makes things much easier here in the great white north.

I'll go with celcius, for one main reason.. Now, water freezes at 0 degrees Celcius and.. what? 20 degrees fahrenheit or something like that? So it's much more often that you can use the term "sub-zero" to describe the temperature outside if you're using Celcius. That and I'm used to it. I don't even know what the hell a temperature in fahrenheit means.

Fahrenheit.

Farenheight is actually a better system for measuring temperature because it is nearly twice as fine a scale as Celcius. More over, The difference between any two degrees in Farenheight is just almost exactly the smallest amount that a human can perceive a difference of teperature. The only real complaint that anyone coud have about the Farenheight scale is the 32 - 212 freezing boiling points which could be adjusted by simply changing the freezing point of water to 0 which would make boiling 180. If those were the numbers used nobody, not even the French would use Celcius.

The fact that Farenheight is a finer scale makes Farenheight HUGELY more useful when performing simply every day task like baking or washing a baby. It is just in many ways easier to use. :sniper:


Slightly off topic but I get sort of upset over the whole idea of the meteric system being protraited as more "Scientific" and therefore "Good" or better than the ols English system. The meteric system is actually quite arbitrary. The basic unit of length, the meter is to long. There are no measurements that actually conform to common everyday items like a cup which is eight swallows and each swallow is aout one fluid ounce. Onces and tablespoons corespond because bites and swallows are about the same size. It is actually the old English system that developed from a trial and error system of experimentation and is thus truly a scientific system. This doesn't mean that the metric system is useful or easy to use for many things but it isn't
scientific any more than Brittney Spears is virgin chior girl.

There was a really good article several years ago in Discover MAgazine about the origins of the metric system. It ended by saying that the definition of a meter is so obtuse (A single wavelength of some type of orange light at 0 degrees C in a vaccuum or some such thing) that the best working definition of a meter is 39.4 inches.

Go ahead science geeks and eroweenies, flame away. I just had a new asbestos siut made in Shenzhen last week!

First: Fahrenheit is stupid. The rules make no sense. :headbang:

Second: Celsius is ok. 0 for freezing point of water, 100 for boiling point. Still, not all that envious because of no absolution, and I can't just be given a water sample from anywhere and be asked to find exactly 0* C. Impurities in water make it impossible. This is probably the best temperature scale there is atm.

Lastly: KELVINS > ALL(in theory). :) Absolute 0 =Absolute. If given water and a device to decrease temparature, I can find it. And I will get the same result as anyone doing the same thing anywhere in the universe at any time. I do agree that it is a little bit impractical for everyday use, but whatever.

Excuse me if I come off as a condescending [mule], but it's the way I talk.