I only deal in farenheit: 98.6.
We are on an international forum, so it would be best if you could use the same unit as everybody else. I wonder why Americans persists in using Farenheit when everybody else uses Celsius. I also wonder why they don't use ISO paper sizes (e.g. A4), the metric system, automatic transmissions on cars (while manual is the standard in Europe and Asia, and most cars in the world are European or Asian), and a few other things like that. It feels like the USA is an island in the middle of the world...
OK, I have changed it. Wow, I didn't know that anybody had low body temperature !
So far body temperature doesn't seem to be related to ethnicity or gender at all.
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Well, that's the way we were taught. There was a move about 20-30 years ago to get on the metric bandwagon in the U.S. You know what happened? It was about as popular as peeing in a punchbowl.
You may get more responses from non-metric folks if you posted a conversion table.
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I'm not shure what my temp is but I do know that I am quite cold (or at least that's what the people who have touched me have said).
I guess it's because i'm European and a little bit Japanese. :shiver
Do you realise that the USA is about the only one out of some 230 countries in the world to use different measure systems (not just the metric, but also ISO, etc.). Well at least American scientists use them. But this obstination to resist international standards is one of the things that give a bad image to Americans around the world.
Who's to say whose system is better? Maybe the rest of the world is out of touch? Some businesses use them (auto repairers, etc.) in the U.S.
It gives a "bad image to Americans around the world?" Maybe you'd like to restate this? Frankly, I really doubt that this matters a whit to anyone else in the world. Have you seen any protests with people carrying signs saying, "Down with the U.S.A. They aren't on the metric system!"![]()
There isn't a better system. It's just nice to have everyone using the same measures. Incidentally, the Americans didn't invent the measures they are using now. Farenheit is from Germany, and Imperial Units from the UK. Both countries have dropped their systems for the sake of international standards.
Because you think people need to take the street everytime they feel bad about something ? Even for serious issues (e.g. Bush being elected, Bush refuring to sign the Kyoto Protocol, the US resuming fingerprinting on all non-American visitors...) almost nobody in Europe protest in the street (in case you hadn't realised most of the anti-US protests you see on TV are in the Middle-East, Indonesia, or other developing countries).It gives a "bad image to Americans around the world?" Maybe you'd like to restate this? Frankly, I really doubt that this matters a whit to anyone else in the world. Have you seen any protests with people carrying signs saying, "Down with the U.S.A. They aren't on the metric system!"![]()
Personally, I feel that being the only country to refuse to adopt international standards makes the USA look like an anti-social in the international community.
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