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Also don't assume all users are on the same planet or speak English as native language.
Indeed, as a French I find many Americans are lacking basic English skills. /s
An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
I always found this interesting because this phenomenon exists all over the internet (there's even a dedicated subreddit for it: /r/usdefaultism). If you don't make it extremely clear where you're from, for some reason the internet just assumes you're american.
No, it exists all over the parts of the internet that are run by US companies, hosted in the US, and primarily popular with Americans. Nobody is going to assume you’re American on Jeuxvideo.com.
>The data suggests that the majority of users come from the United States 41.2% is not the majority… Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?
Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.
An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20 Switzerland 2.30 Sweden 1.73 Ireland 1.63 Denmark 1.55 Norway 1.48 Netherlands 1.43 Canada 1.26 Finland 1.25 United Kingdom 1.25 United States 1.24 Singapore 1.23 Australia 1.13 Austria 1.01 Slovenia 0.95 Lithuania 0.79 Croatia 0.73 Germany 0.70 Portugal 0.68 Israel 0.53 Hong Kong 0.53 Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet ca…
>The data suggests that the majority of users come from the United States 41.2% is not the majority… Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?
> 41.2% is not the majority… Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.
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> 41.2% is not the majority… Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.
No. Majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
noun
1. the greater number.
"in the majority of cases all will go smoothly"
> use of this term is inconsistent as it sometimes refers to a mere plurality (as opposed to an absolute majority)
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So this post was on the front page from about 0300 to 0700 in California? Yeah, I suspect the results are a bit off.
Nope, It is the estimated time-frame between which that post was the top post on HN. It was on the first page for ~10 hours, starting around 10 UTC.
https://hnrankings.info/35553421/
(I'm a bit surprised that you got 30k visitors - that's more than I would have expected at that hour.)
That time of day suggests the American demographics are undercounted (not just US but Canada etc. too). On the other hand, your numbers are close to what I found when I did a similar analysis (already 5 years ago):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 (March 2018)