Go Oregon!
:)
Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
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Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#42This is stupid. It will simply reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.
This comment is foolish; it reflects a lack of understanding that reading, let alone engaging in HN, is not evenly distributed across all demographics with internet access.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#43I'm in Illinois, but the St. Louis area, not Chicagoland.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#44Anybody from Auburn, AL ?
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#45This is stupid. It will simply reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.
Well, you're wrong about what it will reflect. But, even with that, if the purpose of the poll was to find that fact out, then the poll would not be stupid.
You can't know whether something is stupid without knowing the purpose behind it. You only know the question. You don't know the use to which the answer will be put.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#46I would love to see final results normalized to population. Also, after factoring in internet access.
That is, the distribution of per capita (or per internet accessing population) HN engagement.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#47Yerba Buena. Where are all these states you guys are talking about? I don't see them on the map...
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#48Internet content that's meant for affluent, educated professionals will always skew heavily towards California and New York generally (including HN, but I work with a lot of media organizations and their Google Analytics profiles bear this out).
The surprise here is Washington and Massachusetts overtaking Illinois, which would seem to suggest that the large tech community in Seattle and Boston makes up for the much smaller population of those metro areas than the population of Chicago.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#49You should include the territories for the sake of completeness. I know of a few Puerto Ricans, including myself, who frequent this website.
Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
#50Anyone in Knoxville? :) I knew California would be pretty high up there because of SV but I didn't realize so many people on here live there. For people who are in CA, do you live there because that's where most of the tech start-ups are or because it's a nice place (or both)?
I moved here because I'm in love with San Francisco (and really hated Florida, where I lived before), plus I work in the tech industry. I'd still want to live here even if I wasn't involved in tech.
Why did you hate FL?