Try and explain to someone that despite the fact that the thermostat reads 20, the whole house isn’t that temperature
“Yeah but 20C is 20C”
Sometimes I wonder where knowledge/innate understanding floors lie. Like I, for as long as I remember, have innately understood that a thermometer doesn’t read the temperature of an entire space. It reads a sample of where it is. Large spaces can fluctuate temperatures between random points MASSIVELY.
And this isn’t even talking about complex ideas of heat distribution, and I’m certainly not making assumptions about this person’s intelligence. Everyone knows it’s warmer closer to the fireplace than further away, I just assumed everyone can, and more crucially, would extrapolate that concept to other similar situations.
I was so astonished at needing to explain this that I kinda just changed the subject and moved on because I didn’t want them to feel like I was being shitty and calling them dumb in front of others
