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 by far for most things. But for air temperature, Fahrenheit reigns supreme. I will die in that hill with you. Celsius is not granular enough.
And for the speeds used by and distances traveled by cars I do prefer miles per hour over kilometers per hour. I lived with kph in another country and just never cared for it for long distance or higher speeds. If I had to do math problems and getting feet or inches uninvolved, then fuck all that, but as a measure of travel I do prefer them.
But I love metric for most everything else. So clean and efficient.
The only reason I prefer Freedom Units is because that’s what I’ve grown up with and know. If I had grown up using metric, I would choose that all day. It just makes more sense, there’s no random “12 inches to a foot” or “16 tablespoons to a cup” (I had to look this one up).
Metric is easy. A decameter is 10 meters. There are 10 decimeters in a meter. Each step up or down is 10 of the previous.
I’m comfortable working in both systems, I prefer standard for furniture building because I need to divide by 3 or 4 more often than by 5. I’m also going to fly in knots, nautical miles and feet of altitude.
I prefer metric for everything but indoor/outdoor temperature. Fahrenheit is based on human comfort ranges and feels more precise when used for that
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 prefer metric, it just makes more sense. Also having to add fractions in order to measure something is maddening. 10 1/4" + 4 17/32" vs. 260mm + 115mm
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.
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.
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.
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.
You get used to what you use. When people tell me F I have no idea what they are talking about. I hate when my car or home reset to F after a power outage because they display gibberish. Is 68 a good inside temp? I know exactly what to expect for C.
This is true, but Fahrenheit is directly based on climate norms (though thanks to global warming there’s an argument to be made for recalibration). For F, 0 is as cold as it typically gets most places, 100 is as hot as it typically gets most places. By that metric it’s a useful measure for climate temperatures. For that purpose, measured temperature norms make more sense than the freezing and boiling points of water.
Metric. All day, every day.
The A system is superior to any american shenanigans!
A4 paper size FTW!
2xA5=A4
2xA4=A3
2xA3=A2
2xA2=A1
2xA1=A0 = 1 m²
And the ratio between sides is √2
It’s beautiful
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
