We’re taught both metric and US customary units in school. I prefer metric for most things, to the point I have a metric-only tape measure among other things.
However, I’ll die on the hill that Fahrenheit is superior for ambient air temperature. 0 degrees to 100 degrees neatly encompasses the range of average surface temperatures seen throughout the year in the contiguous US.
Metric all of the things. I haven’t lived in the US for over a decade now, but spent the first ~30 years of my life there.
I use both. Probably more imperial, but I use plenty of metric. Im always converting between them for a variety of reasons. Just the other day my wife and I started our first mead. We did several volume conversions and used both measuring systems when convenient.
As of today, I am completely unable to estimate or visualize metric values with the exception of the meter (because it is roughly the same as a yard). That said, I would prefer to switch to metric and get used to it rather than continue using our current measurements. It would be vastly preferable to me to use mm and cm over fractions of an inch (I hate fractions, I much prefer decimals).
For temperature, I still prefer F over C. As you said, F is much more metric-like with a 100 degree range that roughly spans the typical weather environments we live in. And considering that the boiling point of water is only 100 C at sea level, that fact is no more valuable than remember that water boils at 212 F at sea level. The reality is, I don’t actually care what specific temperature water boils or freezes at (at any particular elevation). I happen to know what the values are in both C and F, but it doesn’t matter in my life (except for when I was trying to bake when living in Colorado).
Fun fact, the boiling point of water at sea level isn’t quite 100 C, though it is close enough that 100 is a good enough estimate in most circumstances. The actual boiling point is 99.98 C.
I can really only understand Fahrenheit, miles, and feet…centimeter millimeter are nice though for small things. Celsius kind of makes sense. Sometimes it gets so cold here Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same!
Same as you. I agree on Fahrenheit on the same principle, but it’s not that big of a deal and °C isn’t that hard to adjust to.
Metric. I’ve had my phone set up to display the temperature in Celsius for the last ~8 years so that I can get a sense of it without doing math all the time.
Metric. All day, every day.
The A system is superior to any american shenanigans!
A4 paper size FTW!
Metric, although I’ve never picked up an innate sense of Celsius
Metric. I do a lot of woodworking and auto repair and anytime I have to use not metric it’s annoying
woodworking, house stuff, cooking, imperial all the way.
engineering, modeling, etc, metric city.
Metric all the way
I’ve converted to metric as an adult. Including Celsius. Does it piss my wife off? Yes. It’s better though
I prefer metric for stuff I can use it for but in my industry everything small is measured in thousandths of an inch and everything big is measured in inches + fractions of inches so I usually use that in my day to day.
Weight of human beings, weights at the gym, etc.: pounds
Height of people: feet and inches
Height of buildings: mostly feet, but occasionally meters.
Depth of water in scuba: meters
Kitchen weight: grams
Kitchen volume: fluid ounces only between 0-128 oz, then gallons after that. Decimal places, not fractions. So for example, cocktail recipes should all be in ounces, no tablespoons or teaspoons.
Distances in wilderness: meters/km
Distances on a football field: yards
Distances on a basketball court: feet
Distances on roads or in cities: miles
All temps in Fahrenheit.
Energy in calories for food and heat, watt hours for electricity, joules for everything else.
