I saw the results floating around twitter:
Source: https://twitter.com/jdcivicscience/status/1127285936977522688
This kind of “poll” is a “gotcha” in disguise and meant solely to make people feel foolish and paint them according to stereotypes. It’s another tool to create division where none otherwise exists.
This is similar to asking people a few years ago if they agreed that Obama was a “Keynesian”. Real helpful.
True.
It’s a gotcha and it got me. I didn’t realise that’s what Arabic Numerals were. It’s possible I was taught this at school, but I certainly don’t recall that and I’m sure 90%+ of the UK wouldn’t know that’s what they were. I assumed we were referring to Arabic script and I’ve absolutely nothing against it or any other script or language, but I didn’t understand why it would generally be on the US curriculum.
A friend of mine, referring to this thread, pointed out on iMessage that we are often taught Roman numerals. I was also taught Egyptian hieroglyphs in early school but I think that was more of a learning exercise than anything practical.
But yeah, this is just a gotcha to make people argue, which I spent ten minutes doing with my friend.
[quote=436122:@Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell]@Massimo Valle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
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I was trolling indeed, sorry
And, of course, Al_Gorithms must be done away with, too. 
I am still waiting for the day when US officially moves over to metric.
In year MMMM ?
The US was in fact one of the initiators of the move towards the International System (metric). The slowness of the process with so many countries involved, plus a change in US administration plus resistance from certain key industrial sectors in the US caused the US to drop out and not adopt metric.
Would take me some time to go from driving 65 MPH to 104.607 KMH
“Slow down you are going over 104.607!!” just doesn’t sound right 
I am still waiting for the day when US people had finished the move over to metric.
Actually the US adopted it a long time ago. All the units used there are metric with a extra convertion factor over it. lol
[quote=436189:@brian franco]Would take me some time to go from driving 65 MPH to 104.607 KMH
“Slow down you are going over 104.607!!” just doesn’t sound right :P[/quote]
You just use a new value, like 105 Km/h
[quote=436194:@Ivan Tellez]Actually the US adopted it a long time ago. All the units used there are metric with a extra convertion factor over it. lol
You just use a new value, like 105 Km/h[/quote]
Correct
It was just my spin on a little humor for the day 
remember: Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
[quote]@Ivan Tellez Actually the US adopted it a long time ago. All the units used there are metric with a extra convertion factor over it. lol
You just use a new value, like 105 Km/h[/quote]
Reminds me of visiting a US plant of a subsidiary of a major British company (which shall remain nameless). Speed limit signs in the plant were 15.5 mph. No doubt a mindless conversion from an HSE standard of the parent company. At least I could drive on the right side of the road.
Buuuuuut the UK still uses mph too?
Then, I guess, there isn’t even a semi-rational explanation.
It’s over the head of most students anyway …
We’re getting there… inch by inch…