On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:41:38PM +0100, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
I don't know about the creators of the survey, but to tell you the truth, I had never expected that people don't know the ISO code of their own currency. It's something I assume that they never expected it either, how common or uncommon it might be.
My theory is that it's related to international travel. I'm sure that the main place I've seen ISO currency codes is in lists of exchange rates (see http://www.xe.com/ucc/). Editors who never travel internationally are less likely to need to check exchange rates.
- Carl