Comment by adrianmonk

The flip side is that, if you do hammer out an agreement on what the thermostat should be set to, with an analog thermostat, you can have arguments about whether it is actually set to that.

"We agreed it would be set to 74!"

"It IS set to 74!"

"No, it's set to like 74.2 or 74.3 or something! The little pointer is not pointing directly at 74, and you know it!"