Fahrenheit is Better.
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Kelvin is king though
Hear hear
preach it
On that point, real engineering is the king of kings. I've watched the D-Day series on Nebula 3 or 4 times now and I love it. The production quality, inside details, explanations, etc etc etc are fantastic.
Okay let's get a Polymatter-Real Engineering collab now...
Ah yes, kelvin. Kelvin makes things that aren't really hot looks hot.
Imagine dying on the first hill SMH
😂😂😂😂 burnnnn
ooof
Damnnnnn you killed him
Killed it, I'm really laughing :D
@Evan Scammell there are no good points in the video its all just celsius uses this arbitary measurement why do that when farenheit uses this arbitary measurement? And sorry to say but i cant realy feel the difference between 23 and 24 degrees celsius so i dont think i would feel the difference between 67 and 68 degrees farenheit but thats just me.
"38°C doesn't sound alarming" yes it does if you grow up using Celsius and understand that that's ungodly hot
He said intuitively; you're speaking from experience.
If you were to take someone who hasn't heard of these measurements and ask them which one sounded more alarming, then they would choose Fahrenheit because 100 is much bigger and scarier-looking.
@@zoomzike If you think like that, it can also be said for the opposite side of spectrum, as in 32 F , it seems like meh. In C, it is 0 , so that is also a defining point.
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 It's 0 for the freezing point of water, but we're talking about the temperature of air.
Point taken though, since I negative numbers look super spooky when talking about the cold; I'm just not much of a fan of 'em.
@@zoomzike freezing point of water is an important temperature point for everyday life:
1. food does not go bad
2. liquids you carry with you outside will not be drinkable
3. roads will be slippery
etc. But it all started by having a super easy way to calibrate your thermometer: draw a line on partially frozen water, draw another when water is boiling, split the middle with 99 more lines, done! How would you do this for Fahrenheit scale?
@@janPeja Oh yeah, I agree that freezing point of water is important, absolutely. Use it for any of the things you listed and it's great! I just want to make a distinction between telling the temperature of water telling the temperature of air.
Celsius is the clear winner when it comes to telling the temperature of water, it's really not a contest. When you asked me how I would calibrate a thermometer using Fahrenheit I'd just look at my F boy with disappointment.
I'm _only_ on the side of Fahrenheit when it comes to telling the temperature of air and nothing else. I don't think Celsius is well enough equipped to handle the small distinctions everyday people make in temperature. People notice a single change in Fahrenheit all the time, constantly switching between them, and yet Celsius can get to be over one and a half Fahrenheit.
Overall, I'm just drawing a distinction between their pros and cons. I think Celsius has more pros for telling water temperature and Fahrenheit for air.
Imagine if somebody actually got convinced
I'm sold, if America switches to metres, kilograms and litres, I would be ready to switch to farenheight
@@flyingnapalm11 we use meters
Ya, this was probably the least convincing convincing video I've ever seen. He made like 2 points in 8 minutes and they're both dumb.
I got a anti-vax video for them to try next
@@November378 Haha that would be something
0 should be an absence of temperature. Kelvin gang rise up!
How about saying that your standard body temperature should be around 310 K? Or saying that water freezes at 273 K at a pressure of 1 atmosphere? It would be a bit underwhelming and the sense of coldness would be weird: how should 280 express a cold temperature for us humans made of 60 to 70 percent of water?
And kelvin and Celsius are the same, just plus or minus 273
Gang gang, dunk on them non absolute nerds
@@anthony-joewaked5139 numbers are made up bullshit anyway. Trust me if people got used to measuring heights in centimetres, they can get used to kelvins.. Best part is kelvin doesnt need degrees, cos its literally absolute.
Anthony-Joe Waked lol if we’re talking about water again the whole point of this video is invalidated
The like to dislike ratio is a direct representation of American vs worldwide viewers
The like : dislike ratio is a direct representation of people who understand jokes : idiots with no self-awareness. Do people seriously think that "Celsius is communist propaganda" is his actual legitimate argument? It just goes to show how dense people are and how they're unwilling to watch more than 30 seconds of content to figure it out.
I liked the video and I’m UK-based. I’m not sure I fully agree but he definitely made some interesting points.
@@Uberrandom the Celsius is communist propaganda part requires you to have gotten to the very end of the video, which a person has either skipped to or has watched the majority of the video. Also, has (Wendover) said anything publicly about whether this video is a joke or not? NO.
also, sometimes jokes are not as obvious as you think they are
...it's exactly equal for me so
@@Uberrandom The comment you replied to was a joke, didn't you understand that? Gosh, people with no self-awareness are the worst. Do peole seriously think "American vs worldwide viewers" is an actual legitimate argument there and not a joke? It just goes to show how dense some people are and how they're willing to insult and feel superior to others, rather than spend 30 seconds figuring out how damned hypocritical they are.
“The highest temperature you will ever experience is 100 degrees”
*cries in Southwest*
I live in a northern state and it's not uncommon to see as high as 105F in the summer and -40F in the winter. In the hottest parts of the US ie death valley, 130F is possible along with -80 being the coldest in Alaska. That being said, I think most people won't go outside in temps lower than 45F or higher than 95 without taking precautions like extra clothing for cold or choosing the time of day, carrying extra water, and staying in the shade for the heat.
@@kuhrd if you go out in summer in my state for a long enough time, you will die if you don’t bring water
Phoenix had 7 days above 100 degrees in November. In 2020 we had 53 days above 110 (43.3 Celsius.)
@@LeoStaley that’s why I stay inside during summer
Shit even here in TN. The sun is setting on Aug 22nd, and it's 90 degrees.
*"What was the last thing you measured the temperature of?"*
...body
Yeah. I was thinking the same thing.
Soup at the restaurant I work at. A lady said it was cold so I had to make sure
then it's even better. normal body temp is 98.6 F, 100 F is mild fever, 102 is strong fever while 104 means you should be in the hospital. Compare that to Celsius: 37 is normal body temp, 37.8 is mild fever, 38.8 is strong fever while 40 is the crazy high one. just not enough resolution.
@@kunjalssj no! 36.5 is normal. Anything above 37 is considered a fever, and above 39 is dangerous.
@@doraspoljar697 no idea where you are from, but where i live, anything above 37.5 is a fever. my normal temp is around 37.2 celcius, and i'm pretty sure i've not had a fever for the past year or so
I live in Canada,so -15 Celsius sound more crazy than 5 Fahrenheit.
And 0C is quite significant for determining whether you expect snowing or raining and whether roads are going to be frozen or not
Not to mention the significance of 100C for us tea drinkers. If your tea needs to be made in 80C water, you can just boil some and add some 25% cold water to make it the right temperature. Easy math.
He put Ottawa in the 0-100 f. when it get to -40, git gud scrub making this, very debatable
Former American living in Quebec now, using Celsius, looking at his temperature ranges and asking myself where he got that Canada experiences only between 15-30 C 😂 it's ONLY -4 C this morning and it's not even winter yet and we had +40 C days this summer like every summer... I think our scale is more like -40 C to +40...
@profile, void this is total bs, -15 is a problem in Canada, at least in the north where it disrupts the seasons
If I see -x C° in the morning, it means I will have to leave home earlier, becouse car windows frozed, roads are slippery.
"Crap, it's under 30. Better leave early today."
@@LonnyH For Fahrenheit, your immediate view of the weather is pretty much based on the 10s place. 1-3 = Freezing or close to, 4-6 = Cold, 7-9 = Hot, 0 = Fire or Nosecicles
@@ShawnMihalek yeah pretty much. For me, it's like 0-2 freezing, 3-5 cold, 6-7 perfect, 8 warm, 9-10 hot
@@ShawnMihalek -1-3 freezing 4-5 cold 6-low 8 great anything above that wow great day for a few minutes in the sun before I get hot and go back inside
and -1C and 1C feels completely different (something somebody should tell the idiots designing "feels like" metrics, but I assume they are American and don't know any better having grown up with an inferior temperature scale)
I feel like this channel's purpose is to intentionally make an argument supporting the opposite of what the video creator actually believes in order to see how effective they are at convincing people of things just because they made a video with some arguments in it.
Yeah these are my thoughts as well. Very cool channel idea a nd video!
@@Benne484 I had posted this when only the first 2 videos are up, IIRC.
100%
You can push any sort of nonsense these days on your CZcams channel and people are going to consume it with pleasure. Take flat-earthers.
0:59 LISTEN CLOSELY
Wrong
I determine temperature by dipping my hand to feel whether if it is "hot", "not hot". Sometimes I use that to indicate if a dude/gal is "hot" or "not hot". What is celcius, fahrenheit and kelvin? oh wait...
imagine not just using gender-neutral terminology instead of putting more effort into gendering everything
@@just_a_dustpan Shut up, dude
@@raven-dq6ox you mean dude/gal?
@@just_a_dustpan Yea, imagine that (looked at European languages), oh wait..
@@unserkatzenland8884 German would like to have a talk with you. German is a European Language and has the neuter grammatical gender. I think you mean Romantic Languages.
I'm not entirely sure if you're trying to argue against my point or not, but assuming you are, that is not an argument against my point. In English we have the blessing of having no grammatical gender, and also neutral singular 3rd person pronouns (Yes, they/them can be used as singular, it has been for thousands of years, even Shakespeare used them as such) and neutral nouns such as "person," It's really great.
Seriously, is this the hill you are going to die on?
Celsius to Kelvin is a far simpler conversion (+273 as the .15 is negligible in most cases).
Furthermore, temperatures do fall below 15 degrees celsius in most Northern European countries quite often actually I have felt it.
And what is that point about 100 Fahrenheit sounding hotter than 38 Celsius? I could counter with 0 Celsius sounding colder than 32 Fahrenheit and it would have the same effect.
Finally, Fahrenheit is based on the melting point of a solution of a brine made from "water, ice and ammonium chloride". Which is far more "arbitrary" than pure water at sea level (most highly populated cities are close to sea level too!).
I agree that both are arbitrary, but as a proud European, I will defend Celsius to the end, just like many of my fellows because it is simpler to teach, understand and experience than Farhenheit.
Celsius is also defined in relation to a physical constant now - the triple point of water - so it's arguably less arbitrary.
Ahhh an intellectual. You brought up good points. I will stand by my celcius!
I’m European and I use Celsius but just because I’m used to it. If everyone switched to Fahrenheit I’d be ok with it.
@@waynetraub3 I kinda disagree. Sure you can see if theres a negative but you can also count numbers higher and lower then 32 its basicaly the same information. and a negative in farenheight means its likely extremely dangerous to go outside while in celcius you kinda have to just pick a low number and go with it.
My only argument is this: There is only one country that has lost millions if not billions of dollars (most famously Mars Climate Orbiter incident) due to complicated conversations of the imperial system
It's the Freedom Loving US of A
Source
nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v3n3.htm
This is such an American video. The whole argument is "x sounds more intuitive" to which the obvious rebuttal is "no it doesn't". For people who grew up with Celsius, which is the vast majority of the world, Celsius sounds much more intuitive.
What is really unintuitive is having a differently measure than literally the rest of the world. Its not worth it.
Fahrenheit is "approximately or "about" the shittiest measurement of temperature. It only exists because Americans can't handle change nor understand decimal points.
@@Smile_Fish yeah I know bro, I'm just commenting on how the video assumes Fahrenheit is better because it's prevalent and has smaller intervals.
@Viktor Birkeland and because it usefully refers to when water freezes (very useful for weather).
Yeah farenheight sounds just wrong to people who don't use it, it is not intuitive
Originally 100 F was supposed to be body temperature and there was supposed to be a 180 degree difference between the freezing and boiling point of water. Not arbitrary at all! Quite well thought out actually.
False. Fahrenheit isn't a scale from 0 to 100, its 0 to 96 because he found it easier to draw on thermometers.
one thing i would say is that Celsius has the same scaling as kelvin. This makes a lot of thing more intuitive.
If you need Kelvin, use Kelvin.
If you're in a field that needs Kelvin and you're stymied by the swapping out of one equation for another, you're in the wrong field. (And if you aren't completely incompetent, you're storing your measurements in databases/spreadsheets and automating the conversions. You're literally swapping out *one* equation.)
When was the last time you needed to use kelvin?
there is a ferenheit equvalent to kelvin. the Rnkine scale.
@@bloopbloop9687
A few hours ago
The comments section is going to be fun
You bet.
i think that's the point of the channel lmao
I mean yours is
A bit to early for a april fools joke there mate
Cause people can't make jokes besides on April fools right?
@@SeedTech Agree
@@sargismartirosyan2803 you don’t get the point
Yep agreed
Euroids always seething. If Europe does it, it must be better, right?
The temperature of water DOES matter when you live somewhere where things snow and freeze regularly, and when you live with a negative category, it becomes very intuitive and useful.
Well knowing when water freezes is essential when it comes to weather. Ever heard of snow sweeping and road salting?
American here, I leave post it notes all over my house and on my steering wheel that say "32° = freezing". I find that helps!
Did you know Sea Water freezes at exactly 0F?
Fun Fact: 32° Fahrenheit = Freezing temperature
How often does it snow in the areas close to the equator ?
@@NoobNoobNews To use the word exactly here is complete BS. Of course a very specific salt solution with a very specific saturation level freezes at 0 degrees F.
Did April fools come early?
I think so.
No
Probably, yes.
no.
Nope
I've never used decimals when referring to Celsius, so that's kind of a null argument imo
Lol yea. If he is asking for the one with ease of use and then expecting that everyone normally uses decimals in Celsius is a little odd
Body temperature tho
@@MagnoNotMango don't they also use decimals in farenheit for body temperature ?
the point is that if you don’t use decimals in Celsius then Fahrenheit has a much higher resolution hence giving you higher sensitivity (1F = 0.4C or something)
@@cazminah You dont need that presition on weather. Celsious works fine
Love this type of content, glad its on a different channel so we can hear more about your views on less serious topics but with the same high production value.
2:21
"The weather basically ranges between about 15 and 30 °C"
Me who lives 'here', where the weather is consistantly in the 40s for 7 months: "Am I joke to you?"
Autumn/winter is also mostly around 0-5°C
Ye u are
Actually the person who was first whatched this on nebula
Was*
That implies that anyone actually uses that failure of a platform
@@MediumDSpeaks yeah I have it but only because I already had curiosity stream so it was literally free and I only use it for originals
Did you hate it the first time too?
I think having below 0 temperatures makes cold feel colder. Its the same argument you used with hot but with cold.
0 in America is extra cold. 32 is just cold. (Except here in Cali, I feel like 60F is cold, i.e. 15C)
I live in Australia and I can assure you, 0C is very f..... cold. We don't want to be dealing with concepts that refer to a colder outdoor temperature :-P
negatives in F are very very cold
One time it was 33°F aka
@@eronleung but it doesnt look like if it was
Temperature gradient in Celcius: 40 = wildfires.
With the 10x decimal resolution of Celcuis, this gives me a pretty good understanding of what to expect.
P.S. Measuring the temperature of air not water, is a straw-man argument, as Farenheit isn't anchored to air temperatures either. And knowing the relative difference in ambient temperature to freezing water has been useful to me on many occasions.
That’s why I like Fahrenheit better, because it’s not based on one thing, it’s neutral and can be applied to just about anything while giving you enough variety to notice the small things without having to pull a calculator out.
Yes
Most of the time I'm measuring temperature, I'm cooking.
Then use Celsius then
Nice video, but gotta disagree.
- Kelvin is essentially just Celcius with an offset to make 0 = absolute zero, one degree is the same size in both systems. Fahrenheit has differently sized degrees.
- Many areas included in the "if you live within these two lines" map have temperatures that dip quite a bit below 0 °C.
- How often do need all those extra degrees, really? I can't feel the difference between 21 °C and 22 °C, why bother with additional and mostly unnecessary increments when, as you say, we can always use decimals if we need further precision.
- Majority rule, most of the world use Celcius (and the metric system, for that matter).
Fahrenheit is "approximately or "about" the shittiest measurement of temperature. It only exists because Americans can't handle change nor understand decimal points.
I mean I don’t even live particularly north of the line, just about on the northwest Lake Ontario and we’ve definitely gotten -20 and lower before here
Also: most people live near enough sea level,
Fahrenheit was meant to be 100 is body temperature, the guy measured wrong
Ultimately all systems are somewhat arbitrary including our number system: base 10is mainly a thing because of how many fingers you have
Good video by the way
@@MultiCool10 wow you are aproximately a child as you seem to throw vitriol at people for being different in any way even if its just in what numbers they use then you.
@@maxybaer123 k
12 minutes ago and the like-dislike ratio is already 3:2.
Right 💀 man literally pissed EVERYONE off
Not good for CZcams to pick “controversially” topics to start a new channel
@@johnl.7754 actually I think it is, CZcams measures engagement, and it sure is getting it
More like 1:1
Lol this channel is gonna be consistently like this and it's what I'm here for
As a statistician I get where he's comming from. One of the most important aspects of data should be it's intuitiveness. Farenheight is very relatable to those living around the equator and it's easy to relate to air temperature.
It's clearly just a case of what you're used to. And if anything, the lower resolution of Celsius makes it _more_ relatable (after all, who can discern a difference of 0.5C in the air temperature?)
How would Fahrenheit possibly be relatable to people living around the equator? 🤨
@@kirkc9643 and you're used to celsius being named as the best metric for temperature, so is the same not true for you?
2:38 you complete contradict what you said a minute earlier. You said the temperature ranges from 0 - 100F which is - 18 - 38 C. Now however you are saying that the temperature ranges from 15 - 30 C which is 59 - 86 F. You cannot change the average temperature just to make your argument sound more logical.
Video was made to prove point for Fahrnheit. Im glad that eventhough europe isnt perfect, we have normal metric system with metres, celsius and kilograms. For me personaly is more useful having 0° to know, when roads could get slippery and when water starts to boil, than some extrems which even arent extrems as in Kelvins.
If this is satire it’s so strong, it’s hard to tell it’s not serious.
yea, I don't know whether I should dislike the video or not #teammetric
It’s satire 🤣🤣
It's satire and I absolute don't know whether or not to like or dislike
OMG I'm dumb-
it's not, all his other videos on the channel are serious 🤣
This is the definition of "Thanks, I hate it."
Well he's not wrong, only reason people are disliking is because they've been told celsius is better all of their lives, it's similar in the way propaganda works, if you're told something is the case over and over throughout your life you assume it's true unless you personally go out to investigate if it is or not.
@@ChristopherGray00 POV ur a USA citizen
@@Sinx-Ce "but but I've always been told celsius is better!"
@@ChristopherGray00 it is better objectively speaking.
-its easily replicatable
-its relative to other measurements
-simple to understand
"Why do you need the temperature of boiling water?"
For cooking. Obviously
This video is so obviously made by someone who microwaves all their food.
Yes I put a thermometer in my water and only put in pasta etc when the thermometer says too. No, I can see it's boiling so I now know it's hot enough in both °C and °F
@profile, void Sorry, I do not live on the Himalayas.
Like literally every major city is on sea level. Like if you wanna live with the yetis you can also live with your own temperature mesurment
@profile, void yes but that is not actionable information. Due to latent heat whatever temperature it boils at is as hot as it gets. If that is not hot enough to soften your noodles, then no spaghetti for you. No unit of measure will change that.
4:22 technically scientists still (incorrectly) use Celsius or Fahrenheit for all practical applications. Kelvin is used only for theoretical work, like calculations and by physicists.
Having 0 degrees as freezing is extremely useful because when it's 0 or less, I know the roads are gonna be icy. Also for stuff like specific heat capacity uses it, and it is intertwined with celcius. It is also based on Kelvin where Charles's law draws a straight line on a graph to -273 °C. It is also more usefull to change K to °C than °F and therefore °C is closer to K, the proper temperature graph. Finally, the whole world uses °C save for these countries and territories
United States
Bahamas
Cayman Islands
Liberia
Palau
The Federated States of Micronesia
Marshall Islands
Same with the metric system. °C and metric is the muck better way
I have to say you honestly just didnt adress any of the points well. When its zero or less I know the roads are gonna be icy. just isnt even a point when its 32 or less I know the roads are gonna be icy. and who cares about kelvin
You're smart
I've never seen snow but the couple of times a year when it gets down to or near 0C feel like getting out of bed could be life threatening :-P
@@maxybaer123
Kelvin to celsius conversion is very easy.might as well say they are brotherz
Farenheit doesnt fit well with kelvin or celsius
@@dominicj7977 yes because kelvin is in celciuses unit sizes. it would be easy to simply adjust the scale to fit. not that im suggesting it. im not even sure what your point is but its not like theres a law saying there needs to be 273 degrees before freezing you could doubble them and make it -546 or make it 1 degree its all based on human desires.
Just scrolling down the comment section for additional entertainment 😂😂
same!
0C give you the key information on whether there will be frost. Water's melting and boiling point are also often used in cooking.
Wouldnt 32F be the exact same? I dont have anything against C or F, but 32F is 0C
@@runics8052 No because that's an extra number to remember/process, I can easily tell how close some water is to boiling or freezing withought having to remember any numbers.bit of information, I can easily tell how close water is to boiling or when frost is going to form or when a water containing mixture might well break down ect. without having to think, where is this between to arbatrary numbers, It's already a percentage, which human brains are good at procesing.
@@MaebhsUrbanity decimals are unnecessary however, and yes, 32F is equal to 0C
@@MaebhsUrbanity really not that hard to know
@@MaebhsUrbanity 32 is half a stack in minecraft and 8*4. easiest number to remember lmao.
same with 212, thats a number ill remember after 1 or 2 google searches.
This is a flagship video? I am loving this. Great work.
This is the first random fact video with no facts.
At the 2:20 is mark you mention that their is basically a 15 degree temperature change all year round
You have included parts of Canada and Russia
Where in the winter -30C is common and your summer temperature of 30 is pretty accurate
Not to mention th Sahara, Iran, Arabia, India. Some of those parts of the world easily reach 50°C most years, and the Iranian plateau once recorded temperatures above 70°C
The average temperature in the Pyrenees is -2°C in winter
And Celsius is better
This is just American propaganda
Lol
Switzerland gets -10 °C and is right between those lines.
Near the equator temperatures can get up to ~35 C near sea level and even more depending where you live.
I loved the ending on how you solved the world's hunger.
2:17 - 2:30 It needs to be less than 0 degrees celcius to snow. Are you telling me it doesn't snow in any of these places?
I agree that Celsius is not that intuitive. But I disagree that Fahrenheit is more so. Where I live, the temperature ranges from -40F to 104F. How is that more intuitive that -40C to 40C? It’s not.
I’m curious where do u live with that temperature range that’s ridiculous. That’s like Houston during the summer and Detroit during the winter
@@danielmartin9057 lol, South Dakota. North Dakota where I’m originally from is the same except it drops colder.
@@danielmartin9057 Canadian Prairies
It's built into the logic. On a scale of 0-100, Cold-Hot, if it goes beyond the scale you add "As Hell." 😅 (I was going to put something more colorful, but decided to keep it PG.)
Just to point another thing wrong in the video, Farenheit uses decimals regularly. The natural body temperature is 98.6
That could be rounded to 99 and still be right. In Celsius, rounding off decimals creates a much larger error than in Fahrenheit.
@@TheMegacooldude69 It could be rounded, but it normally isn't, specially over 100. My point is that Farenheit uses decimals a lot (not only in medicine). And honestly the whole argument of no decimals needed is kind of dump.
it doesn't need to be that accurate, infact a degree higher or lower is still within the normal body temperature range, 98.6 is just for extremely precise accuracy, whereas in celsius you absolutely NEED the decimal.
98.6 is actually false precision obtained from converting a rounded Celsius number into Fahrenheit (37*C), average body temp is actually closer to 98.2
That isn't regularly using it lol. I've never in my life seen anything else measured so specifically.
3:44 yeah, also 1 liter will not be the volume of 1kg of water if you freeze it... So? That is still accurate at 1 atmosphere
I agree with the main point of the video, but you contradicted yourself:
At 1:19 you ascribed the “typical temperature range” of that part of the planet as 0 to 100F, but at 2:21 you said it’s 15 to 30C. 0 to 100F is equivalent to -18 to 38C (after rounding). So really that range has 56 degrees of range, not 15….
All of the arguments made in this video only make sense if you live in a specific region or are already used to fahrenheit. I live in Canada, where the temperature actually goes below 0° and below -18° (≅0°F) and the transition across 0°C affects how the weather feels a lot more than the arbitrary point below it. Weather consistently below freezing means that there will be snow on the ground, and weather that goes below 0 at night and above 0 in the day (during the spring) means that it's maple syrup harvesting season. The fahrenheit scale just doesn't make sense to anyone who lives somewhere outside of your perfect 15-30° zone (which stretches much farther north in your picture than it should, and probably south as well). Furthermore, Celsius' easier conversions to Kelvin make it great in any science class. If the calorimetry question says that it's 22°C, all you have to do is add 273.15 and it's 295K. No multiplication. Additionally, 40°C sounds plenty hot if you're used to it, and personally, 50°C sounds a lot more impressive than 122°F simply because I don't intuitively know what the latter means. Finally, we in the rest of the world don't care what Americans subject themselves to, and there's no way we'd torture ourselves with fahrenheit so that you don't have to remember how many feet are in a mile.
And yes, I have been waiting to post this since I saw it on Nebula.
A lot of people are saying stuff about zero but I dont understand it. theres actualy no reason 0 is a better number for freezing then 32 other then mathmatical accuracy. the transition from above 32 to below 32 is the same as the transition from 0 to above 0. With F you get greater accuracy in temprature measurements. Two other interesting things emerge aswell. anything below 0 or above 100 is almost always deadly weather. while its not insta death you shouldent go outside in those tempratures without significant protection and a backup plan. While you can safely go outside in 32f or 0c weather. Also the temprature of the human body sits nicely at ~100 degrees while dangerous human tempatures start at 104. really nice easy levels of severity. If it doesnt convince you I would argue the freezing point of water is no more convincing and actually less useful then body temperature to people regardless of where you are as one is affected by much finer changes in body temp making even 100 better. Also noone Is argueing we shouldent use celcius in classrooms, thermometers can easily have both
@@maxybaer123 Nothing would change the mathematical accuracy, so it's all about how convenient it is to use. The transition from negative numbers to positive numbers feels like it should mean something. Your claim that 0° and 100°F are the boundaries to "deadly weather" is completely incorrect as well. To me, -20°C (-4F) isn't out of the ordinary, and -40°C (-40°F) is when it starts to get dangerous. Meanwhile, weather can easily get above 40°C (~100°F) and it's not that dangerous. Yes, you need to wear different clothing, but you need to do that inside the 0-100F range - you could hardly wear shorts and a t-shirt in -10°C weather. The body temperature ≈ 100°F is a good one, but it isn't hard to just remember 37°C. Finally, the one thing the video says that I agree with is that using two scales sucks. In Canada, our ovens are typically in fahrenheit and I hate that, as it doesn't let me really understand the temperatures that I'm cooking things at. If the classroom used a different temperature scale as well, that would only serve to turn more people away from science.
@@JonahHW I dont mind two scales that much if I dont use them for the same thing. I cant understand how hot something is after its burning hot. sure you can say twice that hot but that doesnt really mean antthing. we even find this in sound where decibels arent measured in linear fasion. we cant feel how hot something is so why not just use the best scale for the situation. I personaly think for weather its F but C isnt a huge problem its just what I grew up with.
@@maxybaer123 Continuity does matter to some extent. You can't imagine what 200°C would feel like, but it still takes twice as much energy to heat something from 0 to 200 as it does to heat it to 100. Especially when things are cooking, it's good to know if the temperature in question is above or below the boiling point of water (though tbf that's more an argument for celsius than one for the same scale).
Oh also we measure sound in decibels because we hear it in decibels, but we don't really experience temperature in a piecewise way, so that point isn't really applicable. Honestly, though, I think measuring sound volume as power (on a linear scale) would be more intuitive.
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I'm a Canadian living between those lines (Montreal). It's currently 1°C outside, and I can tell you I've easily seen -30°C just 45 mins north of Montreal, where I've grown up. While I can agree with your logic, I guess you'd have to narrow it down a little ahaha
I live in Winnipeg, it gets to -50 about once a winter.
Suck it polite people no one cares about your cold sounding numbers
On a more serious note, it is because he wanted the lines to be straight but because of the ocean and wind currents, North America is colder than Europe so America is the same climate despite being further south hence why your included even though it’s colder geez so many Canadians commenting on this video without knowledge of climate
Celcius and Kelvin are the same scale, which makes it easier to convert between them compared to converting from them to fahrenheit. There technically is Rankine, but, come on.
When my German friend comes to visit, he’s always makes fun of our system in the USA. I tell him “Fahrenheit was German”
So he can't make fun of something for being German? 😬
Either this is a joke that went really far over my head or he's serious about fa- fare- fahrenheight?
Lol.
@@johntuite5384 "The whoie channel". This is literally the first video...
*watching replies from afar*
"Switching to F solves world hunger". Yeah. It's satire.
Lol
Its funny how Europeans internalize the propaganda that they get taught in schools.
You guys literally get enraged when it gets challenged.
They literally had to make up (aka, actually lie) to kids that Fahrenheit was bad so they wouldn't use it.
Polymatter made his own Half as Interesting. I approve.
Celsius is good because when its >0°C, the road can be frozen
i think the like to dislike ratio speaks volumes about engagement in the video, great channel idea and I’m excited to see more
This channel is what wendover named “Half as interesting “😂
cringefest?
even myself guesses this was a work with sam
nice
Well it's easier to convert from ⁰C to K, that's why it's more logical to use ⁰C scale instead of ⁰F
F has its own version of Kelvin though called Rankine. Not really an argument
@@moonashaImagine using Rankine
And when's the last time 90% of the population has needed Kelvin?
If you need Kelvin, use Kelvin.
If you need to convert, if you know what you're doing, it's literally the difference between selecting "Celsius" and "Fahrenheit" in a dropdown menu. (If you're a lowly mortal. For higher beings, it's the difference between typing "c" and "f" in the command line.)
When did you last use Kelvin?
@@bloopbloop9687 a month ago during my exams
I like how this is like HAI but more agressive and that agression is directed towards us
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I live in Canada, the temperature regularly goes into the negative 20s, 15 is our average temperature in early fall or late spring.
This would however also mean that we would have to change Kelvin, the difference between 1 Celsius and 2 Celsius is the same as 1 Kelvin. If we were to switch to Fahrenheit, Kelvin would need to be scaled such that 2F - 1F = 1K.
I don't think that all of the benefits of Fahrenheit you listed are valid advantages, and those that are, are not enough to justify a full conversion in whole world.
I think that Celsius and Fahrenheit are close enough in terms of usability, and America is in the Minority. Therefore everyone should use Metric+Celsius and not Metric+Fahrenheit
(Constructive Criticism in the comments is appreciated btw)
No Kelvin is absolute and doesnt need to be scaled based on fahrenheit, maybe the otherway around. That 1 Kelvin equals 2 Fahrenheit. Therefore making the range even bigger.
I dont see a reason however, the range of 1 kelvin is good enough to feel the change in weather. A thermostat can be dialed to a decimal/half degree celcius anway
There’s already an absolute scale for Fahrenheit: it’s Rankine
A big argument here is that you live near the equator. What if you don't?
All the arguments are very vague and.. ignoring so many other things, it’s really not a good video unfortunately
This is a disappointing first video for this channel.
I thought it was a strong take.. if the smartest trump ever had to make a good point .. this video delivered that in spades.. It's odd that you have an appointment for a new channel as well. :D I see it as cutting through bias in an ass kicking, which is always fun. Btw no fan of the trump
Though crowd xD
Here in North Europe I like the way zero temperature works as not only marker when water freezes but marker for winter
"when do you need to know the boiling point of water when checking the weather?" Have you ever heard of snow?
Edit: I was thinking of the melting point, oops
What? The boiling point is relevant to snow?
@@DominatingDrew you are right, I was thinking of the melting point of water. But I still stand behind it
I mean, more simple then "negative = icy roads"?
Yeah that's a real-life safety issue, good point
Uhm, actually... According to most cars it’s 4 degrees Celsius. Still think it’s the better system though.
I know C and F naturally, as many people in the states do depending on where they live. However, as someone in Alaska. I can say I prefer C in the Summer and F in the Winter. It all has to do with variation and when those gaps matter. In the Summer our temperature ranges are so small that that you can comfortably use C because it's likely to be one of 2 numbers at any given point. But in the Winter, it will go from 10 -----------> -70 really FAST. At that point, when you have electronics to manage and animals and plants. The scale of C just becomes unviable when you really need to be accurate without polluting the table with decimals.
"38 degrees just doesn't sound that bad..." the rest of the world just fell of their seat...
This is the “half as interesting” to polymatter, cool idea
Yes exactly small topics are lresented here
Half as interesting is really good tho, I’m not sure about this one
Agreed! I watch all of these channels as well!!!
@@lucasborja3797 c'mon this is this channel's very first video
@@quantumality0084 not really, it’s just an extension of Polymatter, an established YT channel with more than a million subs.
I saw this the other day on Nebula.
I gotta say this is some AMAZING satire. Really liked the comedy
Do people not know that rankine scale also exists that could even replace kelvin, and if defined by Planck scale measures would be just as valid
Yeah I don’t know why people are getting caught up on the whole kelvin the Fahrenheit conversion when Fahrenheit already has a kelvin equivalent
@@samuelhammons2528 it’s because it’s never used because science is done in metric units to be more accessible internationally and that’s literally the only use for that scale
All of the Europeans who disliked this have never heard of satire.
This is satire to be honest I really disliked it and didn't get it.
There is a thing called decimals, which you can use to get infinite resolution on any unit system
He kinda talked about that lmfao
Also: It's completely useless to have weather forecasts that precise. Even if the dude/gal in the TV says "it's gonna be 32 °C" it's likely to be somewhere between 30 and 34. So giving even more precise numbers just leads to a false impression of accuracy. It's the same with time: If your buddy asks you for the time, he doesn't want to know that its 10:31:15. "Ten thirty" is the only useful answer here since you haven't checked your watch in years and it's two and a bit minutes early anyways...
2:18 its basicly 70% of the year below 15°C, and I am living between these lines.
Kelvin uses the same scale as celsius. It is a one to one ratio, all you have to do is add it or subtract 273.15 depending if you want to use K or C.
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Brother you really think everyone is watching on their laptop i'm literally laying in bed 🤣
The freezing point of water matters when there's of foot of it in the solid state sitting on the roads and you want to know if it will melt and refreeze or not (yes, I did just use an imperial unit while complaining about Fahrenheit. Canadians are weird with their units.)
But it’s also just as easy to remember that 32 is freezing as it is to remember 0 is freezing.
YES!! I already watched it on nebula so I brought popcorn for the comments.
Celsius has the same resolution as Kelvin. so it is easier to convert in science. The delta is the same in both scales.
I agree with a more restrained version of this video. Fahrenheit is, objectively a better scale for measuring the temperature outside. And it's not a matter of being used to it or not, it is simply just a more expressive scale that corrrelates near perfectly with percentages. And yeah, 32 and 212 don't really make sense for freezing and boiling points, sure, but remind me, when was the last time you needed to consciously choose a temperature to freeze or boil something? I'd probably guess... Never? You freeze something by putting it in your freezer, and you boil something by putting it in a kettle or atop your stove. You don't need to precisely know how hot or cold you have to make the water because it will literally just happen naturally, it will visibly be frozen or visibly be boiling. In everyday life, temperature only really has to be a vibe centric measure, in sciences and more precise fields of work, sure, celsius is fine. But in everyday life, the only metric that matters is "how hot or cold is it outside?" And Fahrenheit gives you that as, effectively a percentage. Job's a goodun.
This video concept an absolute riot 10/10
I love this...
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And you're wrong. I need to know when it freezes and how much it's cold below that that means at 0 °C
You forgot to mention puerto rico in the beginning. We use the imperial US system too. Almost every product that has a temperature gauge is marked in fahrenheit.
3:06 only Americans find decimals complicated…
@Aaron Speedy I’m just saying decimals are not complicated
True
That trade in the end is OP!! I would SOO do it!!
Well actually 0 degrees Celcius is a great measurement in winter to know if streets could be frozen or if it will rain or snow
@James FARIA why is 32 more precise than literally ZERO? btw, its just a coincidence that some numbers like 32 match, 0 or 100 match some "important" thing in nature, and how is "32" a nice number to remember?
@@michelbruns first, why would you measure the boiling or freezing of water? you know its frozen or boiling by the looks of it, not temperature. hence making the main gimmick of celsius pretty useless.
32 is also nice to remember, half a stack in minecraft, counting down, 4x8. its easy, dont be in denial. same with 212. fucking its 212.
having a more convenient whether temperatures is a huge plus rather than 2 numbers that are easier to remember.
id love the day that people will bring up actual points that celsius is better than Fahrenheit.
@@stego- read the very first comment.. and people like you are the ones denying the truth that is obvious to people around the world, only america sticks to that garbage imperial system, and fahrenheit
@@michelbruns the reason people use celsius is because the rest of the metric system is good. leading you guys to be more in denial because surely the metric system is perfect. which isn’t the case for celsius
32 is just as easy as 0 to remember, just like the first reply to the comment.
mind i ask what makes celsius better than Fahrenheit? please don’t spew out the same garbage like everyone else does, “0 is freezing and 100 is boiling, it is more reasonable”
just incase, i got a rebuttal, Fahrenheit is more convenient and more precise when it comes to weather, which the majority of people use temperature for. celsius is good for measuring the temperature of water. but then again boiling water isn’t the same temperature at different elevations.
@@louzky.177
one is more convenient for water
one is more convenient for weather
the better one would be what you use temperature for.
You forgot, metric system, including deg C, kg and L, were designed around water (sea level and standard pressure) initially, so we have to keep degrees C and kelvins to be consistent, and 50C is a pretty common temperature cap for extremely hot weathers.
I'm curious why you started a new channel? How will the content here vary from PolyMatters?
I know this is partially satire, but I seriously prefer Fahrenheit over Celsius.
We should switch to the metric system for everything else though
100% agree
If we switched to Fahrenheit we would have to change a Joule's definition too
Just base it on kelvins
Our planet is mostly water. The most important thresholds for weather are the temperatures at which its state changes.
The minus sign alone indicates if the precipitation is going to be water or snow (or hail). It determines which fuel and which set of tires one should use.
The same occurs with the water in your car's radiator. If you approach 0 or 100, you know it's time to stop.
But the most useful thing about Celcius is that it makes SO easy to understand how close a temperature is to both of these points. Even if you know the temperatures in degrees BigMac, it's plainly not as easy as being basically a percentage.
1. That’s for scientific use. Not general use. And its not like anyone is forgetting that 31= snow, 33 = rain anytime soon.
2. Same as above.
3. Same as above. And this actually may even be easier in Fahrenheit; warning signs if the number starts with a 2.
4. Completely arbitrary. No one cares about percentages, they care about the number.
Can't wait for driving on left Vs right
Sounds like the ravings of a man who never had to do thermodynamic or heat transfer calculations with Fahrenheit
yeah all these freaking unit conversions are so prone to error. teachers have their preference on which system to use too
Why would you do Thermodynamics in Fahrenheit when Rankine exists?
2:35 good luck trying to feel the difference between 71 ºF and 72 ºF
3.45: water boiling doesn't rely on elevation. It depends on surrounding air pressure. Higher the elevation lesser the air pressure.
Wow well done and very well written. I don't think the text reader cadence voice is value added though.. the content is solid and unique and deserves an individual, regardless of how they deliver
Tbh your description of how to get the whole world to agree on a collective system did have me laughing
"38 degrees just isn't very alarming."
True, if you don't live outside the US. Here in Australia, saying its going to be 38 degrees has the same mental effect as 100 degrees would in America. When Americans say '100 degrees', to me, it means nothing, and because I know Farenheit is a bloated scale, I think its cold, around mid-twenties (yes, I think that is cold, yet another example of how we all 'feel' things differently).
America-centrism at its finest.
Feelings aren't objective. Just because you're American and intuitively know what Ferenheit means, that doesn't mean it applies to everyone.
Celsius is way better for me as a Canadian because it lets me easily know if water will freeze or melt. I can easily know if I need to prepare for cold snow or wet puddles.
I only use Celsius for cooking.