2006-11-20 10:27:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Farenheit rules.
2006-11-20 15:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a bit of stubornness. That being said, it is an arbitrary measure, and doesn't effect much, people are just used to seeing it on the weather segment anyway.
Science uses Kelvin (K), the rest of the world uses degrees Celsius. It would take a change-over period of several years to change peoples' thinking, and it may not be worth it. You'd have protests from people thinking they had been robbed of those temperatures and blaming the change to Celcius for global warming, and claiming that they "can't boil eggs no more since you can't go passed 100 degrees ".
2006-11-20 11:58:33 · answer #2 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blame the British...
We use the English units of measure in the United States.
Even though England and the rest of the world went to metric, the US still uses the old English system. for all intents and purposes, we use metric in the international cargo industry (air freight is by the Kg). The medical industry uses metric, etc.
For temperature, speed limits and the like, it would be very costly to change all those signs for one... We Americans are used to our old system and it seems to work.
If we need a conversion, we just check the Internet, or hit the metric/English button on our car dashboards.
2006-11-20 17:15:57 · answer #3 · answered by fuky_moongy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋