More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
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#21. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion.
2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response.
I think this entire exercise is setup with an agenda to apparently uncover bigotry in the US, when the actual science behind it is questionable. Specious sounding, misleading questions are often answered inaccurately. Clearly, the question never educated the audience on the fact that Arabic Numerals are in fact regular numbers in general use. The whole survey is intending to exploit unawareness on the definition of "Arabic Numerals"
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#3Interestingly, another question mentioned in the article - "Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre as part of their science curriculum?" - yielded similar results :-)
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#41. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
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#5Reminds me of someone going around college campuses asking whether or not we should ban Dihydrogen Oxide.
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#61. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
I mean in answer to 1: The original origin isn't super relevant as they are named arabic numerals in all common vernacular.
2. it's more an evidence of ignorance, coupled with a automatic response to also things that sound foreign that results in not looking up what they're voting on. Which is exhibited in the other poll on Lemaitre.
Finally: I would argue it's an random poll on the internet, which are horrifyingly inaccurate in general, andI suspect [without having any actual studies to support it] attract both the people with more extreme/bias feelings, and trolls.
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#71. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
I didn’t connect the dots to bigotry. I thought this was one of those “see how uneducated people are” kind of things.
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#81. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
> I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response.
What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit? The unbigoted answer if you don't know what Arabic Numerals means is the third option, "I don't know/No opinion".
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#91. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
I didn’t connect the dots to bigotry. I thought this was one of those “see how uneducated people are” kind of things.
It's trying to show evidence that some (many?) people can be triggered by certain words like Arab/ic. The Lamaître example is much harder. You'd have to be a physics gearhead to know that one. (He was mentioned in a book I just finished yesterday, lol.)
Re: More than 50% of respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in school
#101. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion. 2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. I think this en…
> I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response. What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit? The unbigoted answer if you don't know what Arabic Numerals means is the third option, "I don't know/No opinion".
> What do you think bigotry is if not being opposed to something for reasons other than its own merit?
Opposition to things for lack of awareness in itself isn't bigotry. Opposition because of hate of something you somewhat understand/misunderstand is bigotry.
I'd vote NO to "Should we learn Martian Numerals", because I do not know what martian numerals are, not because I hate martians