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by slwvx 217 days ago
I see such questions as a sort of trolling. A question that would be more educational and would result in less click-bait headlines would be to ask people to pick from among a multiple-choice list for the name of the numbers: "Are 1,2,3,4... know as (a) Roman, (b) European, (c) Arabic, or (d) Indian-Arabic numerals?"
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They weren't hiding it, it was literally in the subheading:

> research designed to 'tease out prejudice among those who didn't understand the question'

The purported aim of the research:

> designed to explore the bias and prejudice of poll respondents.

And the research was from:

> Civic Science, an American market research company

The research worked as intended.

Do you take everything so literally?