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There were similar polls in 2013. We could compare against those to measure tech dispersal over the last decade! - "Poll: Where are you currently living?" (Cou
by sigil 5y ago
There were similar polls in 2013. We could compare against those to measure tech dispersal over the last decade!
- "Poll: Where are you currently living?" (Countries, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582647
- "Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?" (US states, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222370
- wyager 5y agoThat might measure HN moving to a wider audience rather than the original audience physically moving. The community is clearly a lot different than in it was 2013. I would guess a relatively larger portion of people outside of the Bay Area is part of that.
- sigil 5y agoFor sure, this would only be a rough measure of tech dispersal itself, not a longitudinal study of HN users. The latter is interesting to us HN old timers, but the former is a consequential thing for the whole world.
- culi 5y agoI'd like to see these votes divided by the total population of each place
- paxys 5y agoIf the goal of the poll is to determine where HN users/the tech industry is concentrated, whether the overall population in those areas is high or not doesn't really matter.
- culi 5y agoSure, if that's the goal. What if my goal was to understand just how over-represented English-speaking regions of the world were in the HN demographics? Nothing wrong with having multiple goals
- namrog84 5y agoEvery geographic survey is just a population heat map result or something https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- momenti 5y agoAnd population IQ.