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Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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I'll be interested to see how many people work within 100 metres of San Francisco.

"metres"? Seems like an odd measure from the distance from a city. Perhaps km or miles?

Also, I suppose Denver falls under "Other US"? Seems like several disparate geographic areas are getting lumped together. Additionally, I think that "Great Lakes" is a subset of "Midwest" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Penn) and "New England" (East Penn, New York). I do understand wanting to separate out Chicago, though. Might I suggest "California, Northwest, Southwest, Central, Midwest, Southeast, Northeast"?

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

#6

I'll be interested to see how many people work within 100 metres of San Francisco.

"metres"? Seems like an odd measure from the distance from a city. Perhaps km or miles? Also, I suppose Denver falls under "Other US"? Seems like several disparate geographic areas are getting lumped together. Additionally, I think that "Great Lakes" is a subset of "Midwest" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Penn) and "New England" (East Penn, New York). I do understand wanting to separate out Chicago, though. Might I s…

Well, it says "100m"

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

#7
This isn't a very good poll because the groups are different things and sizes. Why don't you just do it by State/Province?

For example. I live in Toronto so I'm going to Select the Great Lakes, so are people in Waterloo, Buffalo, etc, etc all at the city level. On the other hand, you've lumped a bunch of countries together in Eastern Europe.

Also 100m is confusing because it refers to both metres and miles. I assume in your context you meant miles but lots of people with science backgrounds would assume metres.

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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post #7

This isn't a very good poll because the groups are different things and sizes. Why don't you just do it by State/Province? For example. I live in Toronto so I'm going to Select the Great Lakes, so are people in Waterloo, Buffalo, etc, etc all at the city level. On the other hand, you've lumped a bunch of countries together in Eastern Europe. Also 100m is confusing because it refers to both metres and miles. I assume…

You're right, all of North and South America aside from specific areas of the US are missing.
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