That goes both ways. I used to work as a driller in Australia. The company I worked for needed to buy about 6 new drills (~ half a million each). They asked two major companies, Redrill (a spinoff from Gardner Denver) from the US and Furukawa from Japan to demonstrate their latest and greatest. Both were pretty similar. In the end, we went with Furukawa because the fitters (mechanics specializing in hydraulics, main repair dudes for drills) protested that they didn’t want to have to carry around almost double the quantity of tools every day - a full set of non-metric for the one model of drill made in the US and a full set of metric for every other piece of equipment on the entire mine that they’d be working on. So that was one single $3 million order for one tiny company that a US company lost because no-one else wants to deal with non-metric any more.
My point isn’t that Celsius is better, its that I’m pretty used to knowing that 16 degrees is a cool day and 38 is pretty hot. I understand that and it makes a lot of sense to me. Because I’m used to it.
If you give me Fahrenheit, I don’t get it until I make the conversion.
Why? Because I’m not used to it. There’s nothing inherent in the scale that makes it easier to understand.
As for granularity, that’s dependent on your thermostat, not the scale. If the thermostat can’t increase in centigrades its not because centigrades don’t exist.
Edit: What @pixleshiftersaid. 
Fahrenheit is based on the freezing point of salt water and the boiling point of plain water, not your skin sensitivity.
Already did that here.
The horse (and his plow) can ride in the cab with the man. He just can’t drive.
Have someone explain granularity to you.
It doesn’t matter which standard is used. Metric is a widely adopted standard for measurement, etc. etc.
You might as well argue whether it is better to drive on the left or the right side of the road(no compelling argument for either, as far as I’m concerned…or any rational argument supporting one or the other. Only that the “system” fails if people try to do both)
The question is why does a country refuse to adopt a standard system? I seriously doubt that a measuring system has any moral or ethical implications. It seems to me that the issue is one of identity. Metric is not an American system. Actually, at this point in time, with its wide adoption in science(which needs standards of measurement) I’d argue that SI units(aka metric) has lost any national identity.
In terms of industry. The cost of switching over would be fairly minimal… but it would probably save money in the long run, because switching back and forth adds another step where errors may occur.
In the end, I think it’s a weird thing to argue against using metric because the argument is really about making every other exporting country do their work in imperial because the US doesn’t want to play. But whatever… It just saves me from having to buy a set of metric micrometers…
Sounds more like you’ve got a dodgy thermostat than high sensitivity.
Shouldn’t that be ‘metric ass tonnes’? 
It works pretty well to have a temperature scale based on “pretty much everything freezes” - “temperature of the human body” when it comes to talking about the human experience of temperature. I don’t often need to know the boiling point of water at sea level. But when talking about say, room temperature, Fahrenheit has its benefits.
But a mile is 1600 metres or so, and 1 metre is already a pretty long step…
I may need an explanation, because right now I’m pretty sure that describing the discrete steps of a thermostat in centigrades can be described as granular.
The ability to simply split metric into smaller discreet units of measurements is one of its advantages.
I grew up in Australia and have lived in the US for about 15 years. For a lot of things, day to day differences are minimal and more or less irrelevant - half a kilo of tomatoes is a pound of tomatoes, a quart is a litre, the speed limit is just a number on a speedometer and who cares what system it’s in. And sometimes non-metric is easier - base 12 for feet and inches is easier (you can divide a foot by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12; you can divide 10cm by 1, 2, 5, 10). But a lot of the time it’s harder - quick, which is larger, a 3/4 inch socket or a 5/8 inch socket? If the 3/4 inch socket you just tried on that nut is too small, what’s the next size up? vs quick, which is larger, a 12mm socket or a 13mm socket? And if 18mm is too small, what’s the next size up? How many fucking yards are in a mile, and how many feet to the yard? No-one seems to know, at least not without looking it up.
For the best humorous summary of the situation I’ve seen, It’s time to head over to the big fight…
NO! Not the COMFY CHAIR!!!
Yep. F only offers greater granularity if one ignores fractions of degrees.
I always wondered what the heck 0°F signified. Neat! I’m still puzzled why such pragmatism would eschew a coarse gradation as seen in the Celsius scale. To my senses, it takes a difference of 3°F for me to notice a change in temperature.
That always bewilders me. No-one in 2015 gives a rat’s ass about France’s connecting with the metric system except the French, who are justly proud of it… and the Americans. The rest of us are just into the “Internationale” part of “Système Internationale.”
