Surveys: Majority Of Americans Don’t Want “Arabic Numerals” Taught In School by johnvibes

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Surveys: Majority Of Americans Don’t Want “Arabic Numerals” Taught In School
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<p>Earlier this month, a survey was posted online asking “<em>Should schools in America teach Arabic Numerals as a part of their curriculum?”</em>Some people were able to immediately tell that it was a trick question because Arabic numerals are the numbers used by most of the world and the numbers that we were all taught in school.&nbsp;</p>
<p>However, not everyone realized that the numerals used by most of the world today were actually developed in the ancient Arab world.In fact, a majority of <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/teaching-arabic-numerals/?fbclid=IwAR06KQ1P_27OoLuC9n9f4DP9Q6yV4AhEdNu6CrPaIUhUopONFqsLbU0mLHE">56% of the people</a> who responded to the survey voted “no.”</p>
<p>Ignorance is one thing, but some of the comments that people made in response to the question showed that they had a prejudiced reaction to the idea that “Arabic” numerals would be taught in schools. Some of the respondents that voted “no” on the survey commented that only “English” or “American” numbers should be taught in American schools.Multiple versions of this poll have been posted various places online throughout the month of May, but a survey published by John Dick, the CEO of a polling company called Civic Science, has gathered the most attention.&nbsp;</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/jdcivicscience/status/1127285936977522688</p>
<p>&nbsp;Dick, said that the <em>“goal in this experiment was to tease out prejudice among those who didn’t understand the question. Most people don’t know the origins of our numerical system and yet picked a tribal answer anyway. You can argue that one is worse than the other, but both prove a similar point.</em>”</p>
<p>The question was a part of a broader experiment conducted by Civic Science, where a variety of similar questions were asked.The question about Arabic numerals teased out ignorance and bigotry among conservatives, while other questions teased out ignorance and bigotry among progressives. For example, another question in the survey asked, “<em>Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest George Lemaitre as a part of their science curriculum.”</em></p>
<p>This question was a bit more obscure, but people well-read in the field of science would know that George Lemaitre developed the prevailing expanding universe theory, which is more popularly known as “The Big Bang.”&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;On this question, 53% of respondents, and 73% of Democrats voted “no.” These results were likely due to the fact that people saw the words “catholic” and “theory of creation” in the same sentence, and allowed their prejudices to fill in the blanks.The results of this poll are reminiscent of a 2015 poll from Public Policy Polling which showed that 30% of Republican voters are in favor of bombing Agrabah, the fictitious land that is depicted in the story Aladdin.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;According to <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_121715.pdf">the poll</a>, 30% said that they would support the bombing of Agrabah, while 13% were opposed to the bombing, and 57% were undecided. Other interesting revelations from the poll show that 46% of those surveyed would support a national Muslim database, 26% believe Islam should be illegal and 28% favor the policy of internment camps. Later, the same organization polled Democrats with the same question and found that 19% of them were in favor of bombing Agrabah, which is still quite alarming.&nbsp;</p>
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@builderofcastles ·
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Have you heard about the environmentally destructive nature of dihydrogen monoxide?

It is destroying millions of dollars in stored grains along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers!

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> “Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest George Lemaitre as a part of their science curriculum.”

Absolutely fucking not!
It has been disproven and better explanations for what we see out there are available.

Why should we teach a not only outdated model, but a clearly wrong model in schools?

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And, what these polls prove is that we do not teach kids in schools, what we do is indoctrinate them.

How dare you ask these people these questions in a form they were not trained to handle!
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@darth-azrael ·
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Questions intentionally designed to be misleading will lead to misleading results. While the Arabic numerals question certainly shows a high level of ignorance and some of the comments show bias, it's difficult to know how much is ignorance only and how much includes bias. If you asked me if I thought Roman numerals should be taught in school I might say "no", because why bother? Concentrate on teaching basic math instead. That doesn't mean I'm biased against Rome. Someone thinking Arabic numerals were some other number system than what we use might answer "no" for the same reasons. I know I would.

People tend not to want to show their ignorance and will answer based on assumptions or guesses or perhaps even what they feel expectations are. 

Some of the other answers are a little more disturbing (national Muslim database, bombing) but even the bombing question might be misleading depending on what was going on in the news at the time. I mean if you asked such a question after the bombing of Pearl Harbor it's likely that many who didn't know otherwise would assume Agrabah was a target in Japan and it would be a reasonable assumption because WTF would you be asking me about bombing some fictitious city after World War II just started?

But yeah, watch out for that dihydrogen monoxide. It can kill you if inhaled and it's everywhere.
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@doitvoluntarily ·
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