It’s so odd to use that expression in Fahrenheit though. 70 is by definition just as likely as 130.
I went to a school where the admission requirement by law is IQ 130, and it’s not like you’d see the kids as fundamentally different from you if you’re within 1std of the mean (85-115, which is 68% of the population).
Everyone forgets about the most important and sane scale ever created, the Réaumur scale.
As it should be:
0°C=0°Ré
100°C=80°Ré.
Edit: for the love of god, it’s a meme community. Of course it’s not better. I hoped that we don’t have to use the terrible /s bullshit here. ohmygod people, think for a second.
The Réaumur scale (French pronunciation: [ʁeomy(ː)ʁ]; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the “octogesimal division”,[1] is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively.
80 degrees is not the boiling temperature of water everywhere due to pressure differences. This means it doesn’t have it’s “superior” meaning everywhere.
Edit: OK so it was originally using thermometers with alcohol that would boil at 80 but when thermometer makers switched to other liquids they kept the boiling point the same but for water instead…
The only time I’ve ever seen it used was practice questions from my thermodynamics textbooks when Imperial units were used (alongside the wonderfully awful to use BTU which doesn’t translate well with anything).
I’ve never seen Rankine actually used anywhere otherwise.
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