Ignorance, not bigotry
Ladies and Gentlemen: The saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we've ever seen in our data.pic.twitter.com/Bh3FBsl8sR
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Both really
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No, this question is practically designed to turn “I am smarter than most Americans” into “I am simply a better human than most Americans” by misreading “I remember a bit of trivia” as “Most Americans are racist.” You can gore the ox the other way.
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IXXX% IN FAVOR LIV% OPPOSE XV% NO OPINION
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Sorry to correct, but it needs to be XXIX
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You are correct. It reveals the difficulty with the system especially since it is not relied upon with regularity. I think it re-enforces the joke. Can you find the other error I made?
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Should be LVI oppose
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Others have also helpfully found my mistakes. There actually are two. I feel no shame since the joke stands on the merits of my clumsiness.
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It was a good joke! The original study results are sobering and indicative of the challenges faced by democracies in our "information age".
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Or possibly even our Republic.
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To be perfectly accurate, they're Indian numbers, not Arabic ones.
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Invented by Persian guy, who was born in Khwarazm (Uzbekistan), known as Khwarizmi
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Al- Khwarizmi and Al- Kindi were responsible for bringing it to the middle east and west. However, it was still invented in India.
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There you go!
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Shh... Next, they'll discover that Algebra really is al-jabr (arabic for "reunion of broken parts"), and math in school is shitcanned
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Wait until they find out about alcohol
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Or the coffee that keeps them up at night.
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or that alchemy means chemistry
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