• 0 Posts
  • 343 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle

  • Donkter@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    7 days ago

    You should examine your definition of intuitive. Yes, technically nothing is intuitive it’s just based on what you know because intuition is also based on what you’re used to.

    By your logic, if you compare a machine that powers on by pressing a big glowing red button labeled “ON” and one that turns on by you performing the haka in front of a camera while reciting a Shakespeare sonnet backwards you might say that there is no “more intuitive” way to turn on a machine, just one you know better and can perform quicker!

    You aren’t reading what you’re replying to because I said in a previous post that it’s easy to get used to Celsius and fahrenheit and there’s no difference to either and I also already said that Celsius is better for science because it’s based on water.

    Everything you said can be said about Celsius scale as well.

    At this point you’re just lying or further proving that you didn’t even read the post you tried to respond patronizingly to. I said that the Fahrenheit scale is intuitive because it’s a 0-100 scale which is similar to other scales we use all the time and works well for our base 10 counting system being a scale essentially between two powers of 10. Neither of that can be said for Celsius and that’s so obvious I think you just didn’t read it before replying.

    And hell, on top of all this, I think we should all switch to using Celsius! Because as I mentioned it’s easy to grasp both scales and using Celsius makes understanding a lot of science easier which I think is the only real argument in this arbitrary choice between the two! But I’m out here explaining the use of Fahrenheit because people here can’t grasp my explanation for why people might use it and are acting like they’ve got the defeater to a post they didn’t even read!


  • Donkter@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    7 days ago

    Never said either one can’t be intuitive, just that the scale of farenheit has a precedence outside of it being an arbitrary temperature measurement by being a scale that goes from about 0 - 100.

    If you had never used either scale and some one asked: “which is more intuitive, a temperature scale where -10 is really cold and 40 is really hot or one where 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot?” I know which one I would pick because I’ve done things before like calculate percentages and work in a base 10 system so it makes sense for the scale to be between two orders of magnitude.


  • Donkter@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    14
    ·
    7 days ago

    I disagree that either would be just as intuitive. Fahrenheit being 0=cold and 100=hot is intuitive because there are a lot of things we do in the world that exist on a scale of 0 - 100. Percentages, just off the bat. Also, fahrenheit has a higher degree of fidelity in the temperature range that we use.

    Celsius’s general temperature scale is like -10 - 40 which is absolutely not intuitive because it doesn’t look like any other scale we use as humans. I agree that we get used to Celsius fast and it’s a fine it’s not like it’s super confusing (and Celsius is so much more useful scientifically).







  • Donkter@lemmy.worldtoA sub for Historymemes@lemmy.worldBRUH
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    21 days ago

    According to a little googling. The bruh spike in the 1850s was most likely just because of a single book that taxonomized an animal as a “bruh” and the spike is significant only because the word isn’t popular at any point in time.

    Our use of “bruh” probably came around the 1890s.