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Originally Posted by Harmon
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.
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Obviously this is a tangent, but you only think that because you grew up with Fahrenheit and you're used to it. From my perspective there's nothing special about -18C that makes it a natural barrier between "damned uncomfortable" and "tolerable" or something like that. Whereas there is actually an observable difference between temperatures above and below 0C. Plus, being outside in below-freezing weather is pretty damned uncomfortable if you aren't dressed for it.