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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by jbsilva »

reginaldo wrote: post #255
cfontes wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great to hear... I said that because I tried to pull a Brazilian Hacker News meeting in Campinas or São Paulo and go 0 answers... :(

I'm in São José dos Campos and would go to a meetup either in Campinas or in São Paulo (apart from SJC, of course).

It's great to see more people from SJC, I was born there too. I spend most of my time in São Carlos (undergrad at UFSCar) though.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by danmaz74 »

tokenadult wrote: post #294

Even if the poll is posted for many hours on HN's front page, we shouldn't rely on it for an inference of where HN participants live, in the level of detail shown in the poll. Just three days ago HN had a good thread about gaps in statistics knowledge even among persons with a university education, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285742 and polls like this on HN are a good illustration (in the comments) about wh…

You make a very articulate point, but let me disagree on this: It isn't true that a poll like this is "useless for modeling reality". It tells us the distribution of voluntarily given responses about the geographical distribution of registered users of HN who happened to see the poll and happened to want to answer.

How does this correlate to the absolute geographical distribution of readers? Or of registered, but maybe inactive, users? That is difficult to guess. But the information from the poll is, for me, already very interesting.

By the way, I'll add that even with polls you can always only measure voluntary responses, even if the sample is randomly extracted, and there is no way around this.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by zeratul »

Poll results roughly correlate with my web app visitors ("When is good time to post on HN?"):

  California + New York 2,516

  Rest of U.S. 3,661

  United Kingdom 797 

  Canada 618 

  India 364 

  Germany 293 

  France 233 

  Australia 221 

  Netherlands 133 

  Sweden 131 

  Italy 96

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by lsb »

pitdesi wrote: post #261

Another data point... This is a snapshot of our ( http://feefighters.com ) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png US: 65%, CA: 7.4%, UK: 6.1%, Germany: 2.2%, Australia: 2.1%, India: 1.7%, Netherlands: 1%, France: 1% Drilling down within the US: New York: 8.8%, SF: 8.6%, Chicago: 4.6%, Seattle: 2.5%, Austin, LA,…

That drilling down within the US doesn't stem to metro area!

SFBay: 12% (8.6% SF + 2% MV + 1.4% PA)

NYC: 8.8%

Chicago: 4.6%

BOS: 2.8% (1.5% Bos + 1.3% Camb)

Seattle: 2.5%

Austin: 2%

LA: 2%

Portland: 1.3%

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