: How do humans feel temperature differences and how precisely can we feel it?

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: How do humans feel temperature differences and how precisely can we feel it?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I believe how precisely you can detect temperature differences depends on what you are determining the difference in temperature of. I could probably tell the difference of air temperature of about 5 degrees, but I’ve grown up with a pool and can usually estimate the temperature within 1 degree when I get in and am always within a couple degrees.

I wonder if this has to do with the comfortable range for each. A pool only has about a 10 degree range that I would call comfortable, but I can be comfortable with an air temperature range of about 30 degrees. S