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You could simply roll out per language, rather than per country in that case, since language is by its very nature self-selecting.
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
You could simply roll out per language, rather than per country in that case, since language is by its very nature self-selecting.
- kderbyma 4y agoBut that would be silly and it would not be politically motivated
- antibasilisk 4y agoSpeaking as someone who had to decide how to distribute anonymous work, language is extremely difficult to track as even if the system language is set to English, comprehension and literacy are not necessarily at the level you need for the data you get back to be useful. It is much more effective to select for countries in the 95th percentile of the English Proficiency Index.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoRight, but due to migration, this is also a problem within regions where a language is the primary language. Any connection you draw between native language and region is tenuous at best.
- antibasilisk 4y agoMigration doesn't impact this since the English Proficiency Index is updated to account for it.
- TylerE 4y agoLanguages are not monoliths. Compare UK vs US English. Similarly, it is increasingly common to get two Spanish tracks… one for “Latin American” Spanish (which is what you almost certainly learned if you took Spanish in school) and European (aka Iberian or Castilian) Spanish. One of the most obvious is that ce/ci, and some z’s are pronounced “th” and not “s”. So a Spaniard would say “cinco” as something like “thinko”. This why it’s “wor-es” (Juarez) Mexico, but “her-eth” (Jerez) Spain.