Most Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in school (2019) (independent.co.uk)

the transition to mathematics with roman numerals would be interesting to say the least.

> “This kind of blind prejudice can happen on both sides.”

Cancel that man, immediately! /s

The truth of it is most people are too dull and/or ignorant to vote, but we have to let them because the alternative ends up being even worse.

When Arabic numerals are banned, will Roman numerals be handled as an int or a char? How will floating point numbers be represented, and will they ban the decimal point as well. And without the zero, how will programs indicate successful termination??

> the saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we’ve ever seen in our data

I feel like we need more data. It is possible that people just saying "No" because they don't know what they are, so assume that they aren't important. What if they asked about "Italian numerals", "Turkish numerals" or "Turtle Numerals"?

(2019)

> Civic Science's research is reminiscent of a 2015 survey that found 30 per cent of Republicans supported bombing "Agrabah", the fictional city where Disney's Aladdin is set.

Interesting implication that those 30% didn't even need a specific reason to bomb the city. Apparently it just being Arab was already enough in their mind? (Unless there was additional context in the question that the article was missing out)

This is one of those meaningless trivia questions.

Its not bigotry nor is it clever. It’s just word play.

I wonder what the result would be if the survey were done in EU.

I see such questions as a sort of trolling. A question that would be more educational and would result in less click-bait headlines would be to ask people to pick from among a multiple-choice list for the name of the numbers: "Are 1,2,3,4... know as (a) Roman, (b) European, (c) Arabic, or (d) Indian-Arabic numerals?"

I think it fair to say that if asked, most Arabs, would agree.

What do they think about Hindu numerals?