It should be Latin America instead of South America, Mexico and Central America are not part of South America (South America is everything south of Panama)
Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
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#352Uhm, I'm in Mexico and Mexico is in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America See?
My first thought when I read the poll was, "What about everything between the US and South America?". I think the way these polls are written tells more about the person writing the poll than anything else. I can't imagine the usefulness of splitting the US into NYC/SF and everything else. Likewise with splitting the UK and the rest of Europe.
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#353I find one fact quite interesting. All 8 Israelis have added Israel separately rather than voting up, commenting under existing one. I wonder what doe this say about us.
There should be a "Middle East" option.. Asia/Pacific is too wide to be really meaningful
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#354Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…
Two things:
1. It's awfully presumptuous for you to assume that all these people are just raring to come to the US and the only thing holding them back is the lack of a startup visa. Perhaps people don't live in the US because they want to live where they are?
2. Sheer numbers don't mean shit. The Valley has the best concentration of engineering talent anywhere. Opening up the floodgates to anyone and everyone isn't necessarily a good idea.
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#355Even 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…
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what is "voluntary response data"? Is the author arguing that the only statistically valid way to do a study is to put a gun to peoples' heads and demand that they take a survey? I can't think of many ethically sound ways to conduct a study without responses being voluntary.
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#356Amazing how global this community is - I always felt like an outsider, as I'm not from the US, apparently I was wrong.
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#358In Singapore, though I'm from the U.S. :)
So it sounds like we have enough people to do a HN meetup @ SG? :)
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#359Being from the (Rest of ) Europe it surprises me how many we are and how little we know about each other here. I know there are some startup valleys in Israel or Estonia etc, but I shouldn't be visiting a US-centric forum to figure it out. Do European entrepreneurs have a similar forum?
Plus I d like to see whats the distribution in the EMEAs
Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#360Uhm, I'm in Mexico and Mexico is in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America See?
Je suis @ Mexico aussi. We are North America!!!