Hi, I think in metric units, so almost everything is some form of a power of 10, like a kilogram is a 1000 grams, etc.

Sometimes I will think of an hour and half as 150 minutes before remembering that it is 90 minutes.

Does something similar happen to imperial units users? Because as far as I understand you don’t have obvious patterns that would cause you to make these mistakes, right?

  • stoy
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    8 months ago

    That is just absolute nonsense.

    I am a Swede, I grew up with the celsius scale and it makes far, far more sense than Farenheit.

    In Celsius, 0 is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point of water, it makes sense.

    Farenheit on the other hand starts at 0F, set as the freezing temperature of a custom made brine, and 90F was set as Farenheit’s best estimate of the average body temperature, tuis was later revized as 96F.

    The custom brine solution is a good start as long as it is made custom from scratch using distilled water and pure salt meassured exactly.

    The 90F/96F is just dumb.

    As for you being able to perceive F temps better than C temps, that is just because you are used to F over C.