Unpopular Opinion

The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.

If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there's really only one unit I could be referring to.

Context clues

I assume when talking to Americans that they're using Fahrenheit. Damn near everyone else uses Celcius.

I assume people are using the superior Celsius.

A lot of people type the way they speak. It would sound ridiculous to include it in a casual conversation with someone you know is using the same standard as you.

I do agree though that a unit should be included when speaking to a broad audience though and I don't think that would be a very unpopular opinion tbh. I'm a man of science though and I've been trained by enough teacher saying "30 what? Bananas?!" that I pretty much always include them be default even when it's clear.

Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you

But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using

I feel that. Me coming from a science background - always use your units. 20 and 20C are not the same thing. Without a unit, a number exists only as a mathematical idea. Even in my own personal notes, I use proper unit notation.

I recipe on TikTok said to cook the chicken in the oven at 180° but didn't specify c or f. So I baked the chicken at like 180° for like an hour and it was still raw. I raised the temp and it all worked out but I guess i should have been a bit sus

I find it’s typically Americans who don’t put F down, if it’s about celcius it’s typically done. Probably a cultural me thing there.

So if it’s not denoted, usually safe to assume the measurement is imperial.

Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes

Its a balmy 273° today

Or K. Everybody always forgets K.

Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren't talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I'm fairly sure they are still talking in American.

I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it's time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it's only the weather and not a lab experiment.

Deleted and removed comment chain because it could be considered brigading. I just found it funny, and didn't think it through. Apologies, I'll do better.

I have heard that most of the Us Americans are living far away from the coast or border, and so they hardly know anything about the world outside. And since America is now great again, they think the outside is so much smaller than the inside.

/s

Those dolts make me hot under the collar, at least a good 20 degrees hotter I tell you.

What's the context here? I'm in canada where it's always Celsius unless you're cooking.