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ConfusedTorchic posted...

0c to 30c is going from freezing to ball sweating

in the same vein, 32f to 80f is also going from freezing to ball sweating, but you have a lot more granularity in how easily to accurately determine what the temperature is, since it's a longer distance than 30 (30 vs 48)

but really the only thing that matters is you use the one you're used to. the one you use will always -- no matter what -- be easier and friendlier than the one you don't. even if you learn the other, you will always have an easier time figuring things out with the one you grew up with.

neither is better or worse than the other, they both have their advantages and disadvantages.

You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 11c and 12c, so further granularity is worthless, and 0c freezing and 100c boiling is universally valid. Farenheit has zero value and is not used in any context with any significance. Technically Kelvin is objectively better, but c centres on factors we actually use in life, so is contextually more useful.