this below mirrors similar polls that demonstrate the low level of awareness of 'consumers', or might i say idiocy;

Should Americans, as part of their school curriculum, learn Arabic numerals?
CivicScience, a Pittsburgh-based research firm, put that question to some 3,200 Americans recently in a poll seemingly about mathematics, but the outcome was a measure of students’ attitudes toward the Arab world. Some 56 percent of the respondents said, “No.” Fifteen percent had no opinion....https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/arabic-numerals.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage