The question has the wording it does because they've been keeping the same text from a time when people did not mind this kind of language they way they do now.

The question has the wording it does because they've been keeping the same text from a time when people did not mind this kind of language they way they do now. If they changed it, they'd lose the ability to compare with the last few decades of results. As for your 'never met one', that's probably an anecdote about selection bias. We does these surveys because asking, "Hey, does anybody know any young-earth creationists? Like how many?" does not provide reliable data.