[ExI] paradox?

[BillK]

On 22 March 2016 at 15:33, William Flynn Wallace  wrote:
> Y'all like puzzles, Spike says, so here is one I have been wondering about:
>
> In the winter we set the thermostat during the day at 71 and that's about
> our feel good temperature.  72 feels just a bit high and 70 a bit low.  I am
> a bit surprised that we can tell the temp of just a degree or two.  Night
> setting is 68.
>
> In the summer we set it at 76.  Any lower is too cold (the winter night
> setting of 68 feels frigid in the summer), and higher is too hot.
>
> Now why should our preferred temp be so different according to the seasons?
> It would seem that it should be the same regardless of what the temp is
> outside.
>


Because you wear different clothes in winter and summer?
In winter, maybe a vest or thin sweater that you don't wear in summer?
Maybe just shorts and T-shirt in summer?

BillK