• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think how hot humans feel works at all, it’s just arbitrary

    Can humans survive 100 degree heat? Yes so it doesn’t represent 100%

    150 for 3rd degree burns (almost instant), does Fahrenheit go off base 150? Also no

    What about cold? Well -40 requires a lot of layers, so then +40 should be pretty hot for humans right? Nope, because it’s not related to humans at all

    • Espi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If farenheit represents how humans feel then 50 is the most comfortable temperature right?

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        1 year ago

        0 should be the most comfortable, with less being cold and more being hot.

        • bignate@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          This is a great scale. Let’s solve all the arguments about temperature and instead just create a “pleasantness scale”. Could probably even market this and sell a “personalised pleasantness scale” and you pass it out to your friends when you meet them.

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      100°F was supposed to be average human body temp. Guy who made the scale fucked up his math and we ended up actually at 98.6°F