Math denialism is a really great description. You see the media trotting out polls where they called up a bunch of people with landlines, but if you polled people who had the faintest idea about the underlying technology (say, assume most computer programmers and mathematicians have at least an educated layman’s understanding of the issues involved, and use that as a proxy, not to say that they’re the only ones who get it, by any means) you would see more like 90% of them siding with apple. A few would go the other way just because their instinctive authoritarian suck-up reflex would win out even though they should know better.
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