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cowox93112 t1_izb8wyd wrote

The reason people feel most comfortable around 25C (77F) is that this is roughly the equilibrium point, where the heat passively dissipated (no sweating, no wind blowing etc.) into the environment balances with the waste heat generated by the metabolism.

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Halogen12 t1_izbqj46 wrote

That's interesting. I guess I'm more of a furnace because I'm most comfortable at 20C (68F). I like feeling a bit of cool on my skin. I work in a place where some days we have a lot of open flame and I get cranky when it gets over 22C (72F). I live in western Canada, though, so maybe I'm just acclimatized to long winters.

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