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Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by workhere-io »

sjwright wrote: post #289
workhere-io wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, please don't put Finland and Iceland in Scandinavia. Scandinavia = Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic Countries = Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroes, Greenland, Svalbard and Åland Islands.

I agree with you! But read the original poll choice: Scandinavia (incl. Finland and Iceland)

Now we're getting into semantics, but the point is, it says "including", and you can't "include" Finland and Iceland into Scandinavia. That would be like saying "North America (including Brazil and Chile)".

You could, however, say, Scandinavia PLUS Finland and Iceland - but that's not what OP wrote.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by sjwright »

sjwright wrote: post #211
sjwright wrote: post #201

Population (in millions): USA 316.8 Canada: 35.1 Southern North America: 176.6 Northern part of South America: ? Southern part of South America: ? ...South America: 387.4 UK: 62.2 Scandinavia: 25.7 Western Europe (excl. UK): 278.7 Eastern Europe: 176.7 Southern Europe / Mediterranean Europe: 153.5 Russia: 142.2 Northern Africa: ? Southern Africa: ? ...Africa: 1032.5 Middle East: 370.9 India: 1210.2 China: 1353.8 Sout…

Hacker News voters# per million: pop/mil votes density -------------------------------------- Canada 35.1 284 8.09 Australia/NZ 35.6* 283 7.95 Scandinavia 25.7 151 5.88 USA 316.8 1817 5.74 UK 62.2 190 3.05 Western Europe 278.7 363 1.30 Eastern Europe 176.7 155 0.88 Southern Europe 153.5 65 0.42 Japan 126.6 34 0.27 South America 387.4 71^ 0.18 Russia 142.2 26 0.18 South East Asia 610.0 110 0.18 India 1210.2 196 0.16 S…

Updated results[0]#

                  pop/mil   votes  density
  ----------------------------------------
  Australia/NZ       27.6*    351     12.7
  Canada             35.1     385     11.0
  Scanda-Nordic      26.2     279     10.6
  UK                 63.8     497      7.8
  USA               316.8    2445      7.7
  Europe Western    191.5     719      3.8
  Europe Eastern    161.0     254      1.6
  Europe Southern   151.2     138      0.9
  Russia            143.5      49      0.3
  Japan             127.2      42      0.3
  South America     402.8     133^     0.3
  South Korea        50.2      14      0.3
  India            1235.3     288      0.2
  South East Asia   602.4     129      0.2
  Southern North Am 203.0      34      0.2
  Other             320.9      49      0.2
  Middle East       515.7      64      0.1
  China            1391.6      81      0.1
  Africa           1085.4      57^     0.1
# As at time of posting

* Australia/NZ population is NOT treated as Oceania, because on reflection I don't think Oceanic voters would have picked the question as posed. Oceania has been rolled into 'other'.

^ Combined votes for northern and southern regions.

[0] Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by zizee »

wattson12 wrote: post #238
zizee wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Population of Australia 22.68 million Population of New Zealand 4.433 million Where did the extra 8.5 million come from?

The poll says Australasia, which includes Papua New Guinea (pop 7.4M), the rest would be from the smaller island nations I guess

Interesting, I didn't know that Papua New Guinea was sometimes/often included in Australasia. It seems that the definition of Australasia differ when talking geopolitically vs Ecologically.

I think it is a mistake to include PNG with Australia/NZ as they are so fundamentally different that to group them together hides interesting information.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by sjwright »

workhere-io wrote: post #291
sjwright wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you! But read the original poll choice: Scandinavia (incl. Finland and Iceland)

Now we're getting into semantics, but the point is, it says "including", and you can't "include" Finland and Iceland into Scandinavia. That would be like saying "North America (including Brazil and Chile)". You could, however, say, Scandinavia PLUS Finland and Iceland - but that's not what OP wrote.

I agree with you! I'm just dealing with the data we've been given.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by sjwright »

lucideer wrote: post #287
sjwright wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about this as a proposed breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...

What's the rationale for breaking UK out from the rest? Population? Size? France and Germany are both larger.

Don't ask me, ask the OP who invented this crazy breakdown. I'm just trying to make sense of the insanity.

(One rationale might be propensity towards English as a first language, which does represent a strong influence to Hacker News readership.)

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by ledge »

victorhn wrote: post #187
ledge wrote: post #157

I live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 99% of the time I have no regrets about moving here from the United States. That other 1% of the time when you are sick or require the services of the police, it's not the best place to be. My insurance plan covers an airlift to Thailand in the event of a serious emergency.

Are you the guy from Pirate Bay?

Nope, he got nabbed in Sihanoukville, which is the touristy beach destination in Cambodia. It's a small enough town that all the expats know each other, so I've met many people who ran into him a few times.
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