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Originally Posted by foghat
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Well, more like 65 degrees of usefulness where I live. But even going with your 40 degrees. So what if there is only 40 degrees to play with? Each change in degree has meaning. That is perfect - from a non-scientific, 'human being living in normal environments' perspective.
Why have a scale so wide that moving from one degree to the next really doesn't mean much at all (i.e. can't really be felt). When I lived in the States, I looked at temperature in 5 degree chunks, as, in Fahrenheit, a change by a degree or 2 means next to nothing.
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Maybe it has something to do with the 0 to to 100 range. That range encompasses the entire comfort zone plus, at either end, a discomfort zone. Most temperatures, most places, most of the time, are within those bounds. But if you get below 0 or above 100, you are clearly in the damned uncomfortable zone. Whereas with C, it's not clear where the damned uncomfortable zone is, exactly, and it's tough to know if you are risking going out to the discomfort zone. So the peculiar result is that the more rational system - C - is the less practical one.
I think that something like that is why people don't like locations. The numbers are too big to be able to position yourself, mentally. Someone on the thread said that he or she preferred to just look at the percentage, and on reflection, I find that I do, too. Zero to 100.