Let me guess, the world being flat? Yes, thats something that can be scientifically proven to be false, but this on the other hand as you and others pointed out is more murky. This is about how people use a word in a language, and meanings of words change a lot as well as how they use them. In this case with the way a word is used, a majority ruling does give me ground to stand on, as it reflects how most people would use the word in our language.
And from the poll, it is clear that most consider a being of destruction change revolution and so on to be chaotic. Majority ruling doesn't work on everything, or even most, but it does in this case.