On May 21, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Parisa Montazeri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

This very think was covered in Veep (HBO series w/ Julia Louis-Dreyfus); a presidential candidate was running on platform that Math teachers are terrorists (for teaching Arabic created Math) and doing really well in the polls because of it! 

So crazy; I thought it was just a spoof. Who knew based on some truth. 

On May 21, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Marquis, Andre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Freaking mind-boggling!

From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 8:36 AM
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Study of Forms of Blind Prejudice Among Democrats & Republicans

Hi TOK List,

  Thought folks might be interested (and disheartened) to see this study. God help us all.

 

G

 

From: Ken Pope [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: May-20-19 9:35 AM
To: Pomichalek, Dr. Milan
Subject: Most in U.S. Say Schools Should Not Teach "Arabic Numerals"; Study of Forms of Blind Prejudice Among Democrats & Republicans

 

The U.K. Independent includes an article: "Most Americans say ‘Arabic numerals’ should not be taught in school, finds survey"Seventy-two per cent of Republicans oppose Western world's standard numeric system, according to research designed to 'tease out prejudice among those who didn't understand the question’” by Chris Baynes.

 

Here are some excerpts:

 

[begin excerpts]

 

More than half of Americans believe “Arabic numerals” – the standard symbols used across much of the world to denote numbers – should not be taught in school, according to a survey.

 

Fifty-six per cent of people say the numerals should not be part of the curriculum for US pupils, according to research designed to explore the bias and prejudice of poll respondents.

 

The digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are referred to as Arabic numerals. 

 

<snip>

 

A survey by Civic Science, an American market research company, asked 3,624 respondents: “Should schools in America teach Arabic numerals as part of their curriculum?” 

 

<snip>

 

Some 2,020 people answered “no”. Twenty-nine per cent of respondents said the numerals should be taught in US schools, and 15 per cent had no opinion.

 

John Dick, chief executive of Civic Science, said the results were “the saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we’ve ever seen in our data”.

 

Seventy-two per cent of Republican-supporting respondents said Arabic numerals should not be on the curriculum, compared 40 per cent of Democrats.  This was despite there being no significant difference in education between the two groups.

 

“They answer differently even though they had equal knowledge of our numerical nomenclature,” Mr Dick said. “It means that the question is about knowledge or ignorance but [also] something else – prejudice.”

 

He said the goal of the research was to “tease out prejudice among those who didn’t understand the question”.

 

This bias was not limited to conservative respondents and attitudes towards Islam.

 

Another poll question was worded: “Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest George Lemaitre as part of their science curriculum?”

 

Seventy-three per cent of Democrats answered “no”, compared to 33 per cent of Republicans – with some respondents on either side presumably assuming Lemaitre’s theory was related to intelligence design.

 

In fact, the Belgian priest was also a physicist who first discovered the universe was expanding and proposed its origins lay in the explosion of a single particle - an idea that became known as the Big Bang theory.

 

“While Lemaitre is more obscure than Arabic numerals, the resulting effect is almost identical,” Mr Dick said. “Dems are biased against Western religion, if latently.

 

“This kind of blind prejudice can happen on both sides.”

 

Civic Science's research is reminiscent of a 2015 survey that found 30 per cent of Republicans supported bombing "Agrabah", the fictional city where Disney's Aladdin is set.

 

[end excerpts]

 

The article is online at: Ken Pope Study Of Blind Prejudice on Both Sides

 

Ken Pope

 

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A PRACTICAL GUIDE (5th EDITION)—John Wiley & Sons

Print—Kindle—Nook—eBook—Apple iBook—Google Book

http://kspope.com/ethics/ethics.php 

 

ADAMES, CHAVEZ-DUEÑAS, & POPE: "TARGETED: SURVIVING SOCIAL MEDIA ATTACKS"

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/03/06/how-respond-social-media-attacks-opinion

 

POPE: PSYCHOLOGY, ETHICS, & HUMAN RIGHTS—

EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST (in press)

https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.1027/1016-9040/a000341

 

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