Dear John, You're evidently right about your first sentence below. However, my real intention was to comment that to make such a general statement like that you'd have to have a considerable pool of people agreeing with it.
In other words, I honestly doubt it you'd find a reasonably-sized sample of people who would agree with that statement to a 1 degree Fahrenheit accuracy. On the other hand I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of people would consider a 2-degree Celsius interval 'definitely noticeable'! (Observation: Not to add to the debate, but you may be overlooking the impact humidity would have in your own parameter of comfort... In other words, try the same experiment but messing with humidity and see if you'd agree with your original proposal... ;-) ) I hope I made myself a little clearer. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:53:09 John S. Ward wrote: >Marcus, > >Just because you can't feel the difference doesn't mean others don't. I >definitely notice a temperature difference of 1 degree F in my office. In >short sleeves, 72 degrees feels a bit warm, 70 a bit cool, and 71 just right. >I know I'm not the only person who would find a thermostat with 1 degree C >resolution to be a bit coarse. > >John > >On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:23, Ma Be wrote: >> 'Most certainly noticeable'??? Hmm... I'm sorry, Norm, but I don't think >> so! At least I can't tell, even between say 17 or 18 degrees. >> >> Perhaps you're overreacting. In any case, I'd say that 2 degrees seems >> reasonable to use as a benchmark. I.e., your 'most certainly noticeable' >> should read 2 degrees instead (and, BTW, that's in *Celsius*!...) >> >> Marcus >> >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:24:02 >> >> Norman & Nancy Werling wrote: >> >My White-Rodgers programable thermostat instructs me to program it in >> > Fahrenheit before switching it over to Celsius. I may understand why >> > that is required. It may be because there are 9 0F to each 5 0C. Thus >> > if one wants to change it up or down, usually one has to punch the up or >> > down arrows twice. This may be because at most times 1 0C is equal to 2 >> > 0F (or you could say that usually each punch equals aproximately 0.5 0C. >> > >> >I have to insist that, to me, changing by 1 0F in the house is very truly >> > and most certainly noticeable. This leads me to think that thermostats >> > designed for Celsius may need to be calibrated in 0.5 0C increments. >> > What is done in Europe? >> > >> >Norm >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! >> Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
