Selected Results from the Mathematical Conventions Survey

What is 6 2(1 + 2)?Is 0 ? Mathematics is fraught with an amusing number of clashing conventions.In an effort to upset people, I amassed 100 such questions and sent them out in a survey to a few friend circles and social media sites.The survey and its results proceeded to go viral, particularly on TikTok [1], and I received a wide range of emotional responses towards my work.In all, a resounding success!My only regret is not including more questions in combinatorics.At the time of writing, the survey has reached 150+ universities and accumulated 5500+ responses, which is more than double the size of the sample I analyzed in the original overview of results [2].All questions on the survey were optional, and respondents were also prompted to provide their affiliation if they wished.This helped give a better sense of who was taking the survey and whether or not certain preferences could be attributed to higher mathematical training or country.(Only university-affiliated respondents could be assigned a country because the survey did not ask for the respondent's country.)Overall, 529 respondents (approximately 9%) provided a university affiliation, and among those, 341 hail from universities in the United States.Although there were no restrictions on who could respond, the conclusions suggested by the data are interesting nonetheless.The results can also find practical use in increasing awareness of popular but highly contested conventions.This is quite useful for both present and future