Ah yes, 2,313 people, otherwise known as a representative sample 350 million.
2000 can absolutely be a representative sample size. The bigger worry here is sampling bias rather than sample size.
I don’t believe this is a representative sample, but not because of the sample size. Stay in your lane, high school level science education.
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This fucking comment on every single poll result. Consider learning even the tiniest bit about how statistical sampling works.
It appears to be an online poll which wouldn’t have proper sampling
That’s a vastly better critique than just whining about the sample size.
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but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️
I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.
A base-12 metric system would be absolutely gorgeous. Geometry and trigonometry would be greatly simplified with a duodecimal unit circle. Our 360-degree circle is a truly ugly hack to make geometry play nice with a decimal number system.
Our base-10 number system would be as ugly to a duodecimal society as a base-7 system would be to us.
duodecimal is a decimal based name, I propose “dozecimal”
Seems confusing, why don’t we just call it base-10?
Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.
Get learning, kids.
How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!
Back to Greek then. 😅
Is that like Roman numerals?
Not really, they’re based on gematria like Hebrew numerals. α = 1, β = 2, γ = 3 and so on
my hebrew is a little rusty
It is similar in that they use characters from their alphabet as numerals but not exactly the same way as the Romans. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10, just like Roman and Arabic. The units from 1 to 9 are assigned to the first nine letters of the old Ionic alphabet from alpha to theta. Instead of reusing these numbers to form multiples of the higher powers of ten, however, each multiple of ten from 10 to 90 was assigned its own separate letter from the next nine letters of the Ionic alphabet from iota to koppa. Each multiple of one hundred from 100 to 900 was then assigned its own separate letter as well, from rho to sampi.
Roman got it from the Greek too before adapting it, iirc.
Romans got like 80% of everything they stood for from the Greeks.
A joke goes: The Greek invented sex. The Romans later improved upon the idea by introducing women to it.
Hehe, yeah, even their God’s were recycled Greek ones.
…ucked.
Someone should tell them…
Imperial mesure and Roman numerals fits good in this dystopic redneck country
…ucked
Apparently they call it “Hindu-Arabic” numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening
Fucking idiots…
Gotcha questions like this (eg “should we ban dihydromonoxide”) are supposed to show us not to jump to conclusions, but I’m guessing the people voting no on this one aren’t taking much away from it
To be fair the system is hindu arabic.
Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣
TIL
You’re joking, but give it a few months to a year.
This will be a republican talking point for doing away with public schools.
In fairness the question is open to interpretation. They don’t specify if they mean western or eastern Arabic numerals.
As schools in the west already teach western, the people responding could justifiably deduce that the question is referring to eastern.
But the Eastern Arabic numbers are the same as the western ones except that the Arabs call them Indian numbers
Ya, I don’t understand the point here.
Is the context asking if jr high/high school language classes for languages that use Arabic Numerals should be banned?
Or is the context asking if grade school students should be taught all the different numerals of the world?
Or is the context asking if just English/Roman/Arabic numerals should be taught?
etc.
All of these questions have different answers…
For context: Arabic numbers are the “normal” numbers you use every day in contrast to the Roman numerals for example
Yes, and as I just learned EASTERN Arabic numerals are a horse of a completely different color.
Its a good trick question.
English speakers are going to look for “English/British/UK” for the name of the characters they use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals
They are going to think that when you say Arabic, it means this:
It’s pointing out how many people will ignorantly hate something just because of it’s name.
That might be the narrative its going for, but I don’t think its a good example.
Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Non-Eastern Arabic Numerals, that might be something.
Calling that racism is just lazy and misleading.
Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Arabic Numerals, that might be something.
There you go. You finally got it. Yay.
It’s Also pointing out the fear of middle easterns
Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.
