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Why tf is there a no opinion if you don't have one don't vote
I respect people that have no opinion. Not everyone is going to know everything about every subject. Saying "I don't know enough about this subject to have an opinion" should be considered completely valid.
Case in point, someone that doesn't know that Arabic Numerals are the ubiquitous number system in the world saying "I dunno" is way better than someone else that also doesn't know this being pressured to give an answer. It's certain that the 57% of the people that answered "No" were thinking that American schools should just teach the numerals they were taught and didn't know Arabic numerals actually were what they were taught.
Then we can make assumptions about people being racist for simply not knowing some math terminology. While there are indeed people that are racist, I think people simply not knowing the terminology is a more significant factor in this poll. It can be difficult to interpret polling data even in the best of times, and online polls are meaningless besides that.
But it's fun to point and laugh at people that don't know correct terminology I guess.
People want to see the results, so they would vote anything if there is no "no opinion" option.
You can’t have one without Arabic numerals in the first place.
"I" begs to differ