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The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.
Kelvin? Oh god! Below absolute 0!!!
Fun fact: there's no degrees Kelvin since it's an absolute scale.
Kelvin is an absolute unit.
I have been guilty of this but I will change!
From now on, I will be sure to specify that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees fahrenheit and of a square is 360 degrees celcius.
If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there's really only one unit I could be referring to.
A chilly -40 in Siberia
Context clues
The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.
I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.
Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.
22 would rarely be nice in F unless (context clues) we’re in a bad winter but going to a much worse one.
I assume when talking to Americans that they're using Fahrenheit. Damn near everyone else uses Celcius.
I assume people are using the superior Celsius.
Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you
But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using
We knots linens summer
So no confusion around temperature but you find other ways to confuse each other?
For sure, and I don’t even remember what I was trying to say there before Siri “corrected” it
Its a balmy 273° today
Or K. Everybody always forgets K.
A lot of people type the way they speak. It would sound ridiculous to include it in a casual conversation with someone you know is using the same standard as you.
I do agree though that a unit should be included when speaking to a broad audience though and I don't think that would be a very unpopular opinion tbh. I'm a man of science though and I've been trained by enough teacher saying "30 what? Bananas?!" that I pretty much always include them be default even when it's clear.
Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes
I feel that. Me coming from a science background - always use your units. 20 and 20C are not the same thing. Without a unit, a number exists only as a mathematical idea. Even in my own personal notes, I use proper unit notation.
My physics teacher used to get mad at us. "2.63? ... 2.63 what?! Slug lengths?!"
Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren't talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I'm fairly sure they are still talking in American.
I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it's time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it's only the weather and not a lab experiment.
Things become more confusing if you are in Antarctica. I wonder how people deal with units there.
Cold, colder, and frostbite
I recipe on TikTok said to cook the chicken in the oven at 180° but didn't specify c or f. So I baked the chicken at like 180° for like an hour and it was still raw. I raised the temp and it all worked out but I guess i should have been a bit sus
For future reference, the average temperature for baking is 180c or 350f. Anything under 300 is a pretty good indicator of it being Celsius. Unless it's something that is going to bake for 6+ hours, like brisket.
I find it’s typically Americans who don’t put F down, if it’s about celcius it’s typically done. Probably a cultural me thing there.
So if it’s not denoted, usually safe to assume the measurement is imperial.
Deleted and removed comment chain because it could be considered brigading. I just found it funny, and didn't think it through. Apologies, I'll do better.
-ounces
-tablespoons
-cups
-OVEN 300 CELSIUS?!?
(I know you're not OP, this is not at you)
I have heard that most of the Us Americans are living far away from the coast or border, and so they hardly know anything about the world outside. And since America is now great again, they think the outside is so much smaller than the inside.
/s
Those dolts make me hot under the collar, at least a good 20 degrees hotter I tell you.