

Base 10 is nice for crossing regimes of scales, orders of magnitude. But we don’t really engage with temperature that way. The problem I have with F-heit on its own, is that it’s much too precise. The difference of a degree is meaningless, especially when considering weather. Fahrenheit weather maps are cluttered, dials and buttons on thermostats and in cars are slow, thermometer readings change too frequently, etc. USian shoe sizes have the opposite problem. If you need to use half sizes all the time then FFS just multiply the scale by 2.





Perhaps, but I think that a lot of USians have experienced something different without realising. Consider the medium density mixed use walkable situation that is Disney World or a cruise ship or a vacation in some beach town or in Venice, or even of many university campuses. I think familiarity with the language of urbanism is maybe as important as the experience of different types.