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But we do tend to round to the nearest half degree when discussing temperature in the UK. Do people do that with temps in the US or just round to the nearest degree? If it's the later then the two are similarly granular in practise.
People round to the nearest degree in the US. But that's kind of my point. It's more awkward to throw in fractional temperatures and the fact that you do shows that Celsius isn't properly expanded enough. In Canada people in my anecdotal experience actually haven't been rounding to the nearest half degree, just the nearest degree thereby making the scale feel less granular.
Not to knock - everyone invariably likes what they're used to better. I usually get a lot of pushback from people for this opinion. But that's my point - I concede that even with my familiarity in miles and pounds that kilometres and kilograms are better systems of measurement. The wonder of the metric system is the simple ratios in multiples of 10. But temperature is a realm where that advantage doesn't exist. And on an objective level, I think Fahrenheit has a better argument for function.