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I wonder if this can explain rising worldwide rates of obesity.
https://www.wired.com/story/fungi-climate-change-medicine-he...
Edit: Found a link:
https://www.osfhealthcare.org/blog/whats-considered-a-fever-...
100.4 is their threshold.
I have always felt that 37C was way too precise an answer for a human's body temperature. How is it that a measurement based on the freezing and boiling point for water coincidentally lands on a nice even number for a human's body temperature. It's one of my issues with biological sciences that they sometimes try to come up with precise answers as they do in physics or chemistry, when most of the time answers, such a…
Even “around” is meaningless without context. A hot day is around 37c (+/- 10), a healthy person is around 37c (+/- 1) and a manufacturing process could call for a temp around 37c (+/- 0.1).
Absolutely not. 47C is an emergency, not "hot".
Not sure if it's all the countries, but I have always heard the normal body temperature in Celsius stated as 36.5, which is 97.7 F. Is 98.6 an american-only thing?
Yes, it's a conversion of 37C which is stupid since 37C is when I have a fever already
As the article says, Wunderlich reached a conclusion of 37C in the 1800s, and that’s what we’ve used since then. The real problem appears to be that converting to Fahrenheit and reporting this as “98.6F” suggests an order of magnitude more precision than “37C”. 36.5C would still round to 37 but corresponds to 97.7F.
I thought the same, so I tried to find Wunderlich. The only source I could find ( https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/3-wHAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gb... ) seems to have Wunderlich reporting "98.6F", and then converting to Celsius: > The average normal temperature of the healthy human body in its interior, or in carefully covered situations on its surface, varies, according to the plan of measurement from 98.6° to 99.5° Fahr…
Funny that people argue over this and some guy named Wunderlich who measured a bunch of asses.
Did he write that translation or is Google Books fake news?
In Poland normal has always been considered 36.6C, which is 97.9F, which the article states as a proposed new normal.
I know it's not exactly "thinking with statistics", but it strikes me as too coincidental that the obesity epidemic has only exploded in recent decades too.
Several people in the medical field have told me they do not consider 99.x as a fever. Edit: Found a link: https://www.osfhealthcare.org/blog/whats-considered-a-fever-... 100.4 is their threshold.
Or is there really an accurate and consistent calibration technique that's been in use since at least the 1800s, so we know for sure that it must be humans themselves getting cooler?