POLL - geographic location of our members

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Discussion Overview

This thread is a poll aimed at determining the geographic distribution of members within the Physics Forums community. Participants are encouraged to share their country of origin and gender, with the intent of understanding the global localization of the forum's audience.

Discussion Character

  • Meta-discussion
  • Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express their locations and genders, contributing to the poll.
  • One participant questions the importance of the poll, suggesting it may be a way to seek dates.
  • Another participant emphasizes the significance of knowing the gender distribution within the science community.
  • Discussions arise regarding the categorization of regions such as Oceania and the cultural differences among North American countries.
  • Participants share insights about the number of countries represented in the forum, with one noting at least 28 countries based on member profiles.
  • There is a debate about the total number of countries in the world, with references to both UN and CIA statistics.
  • Some members express frustration over the spelling of country names and the categorization of regions.
  • Participants discuss the difficulty in extracting demographic data from member profiles due to incomplete information.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the importance of the poll or the categorization of geographic regions. Multiple competing views regarding cultural similarities and differences among North American members are present, and the discussion remains unresolved on several points.

Contextual Notes

Limitations include incomplete member profiles affecting the accuracy of demographic data and varying definitions of geographic regions that lead to differing opinions.

Your Geographic Location

  • North America

    Votes: 203 60.4%
  • Latin America

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • Europe

    Votes: 79 23.5%
  • Islamic world (ie N. Africa and Middle East)

    Votes: 10 3.0%
  • Africa (excl above)

    Votes: 2 0.6%
  • Former Soviet Union

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • East Asia (eg China/ Japan)

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • South Asia (eg India)

    Votes: 11 3.3%
  • South East Asia (eg Malesia/ Indonesia)

    Votes: 8 2.4%
  • Australia and Oceania

    Votes: 16 4.8%

  • Total voters
    336
  • #181
Information gathering can be used in a number of ways, I have read somewhere that most of 'SPAM' data base's originates from europe, in the general vicinity of Holland? Just yesterday the worlds internet use has been stated as being overun with advitizements for porn/viagra? as they are compatable!, I wonder if there is any truth in the location of these, due to hollands liberal attitude's?

As a lot of bonafide Polls are quite useful, it is obvious that totally useless and seemingly harmless polls?..should be avoided with the revelation of it's instigator's location!

You have been warned!
 
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  • #182
i am 18 from New Delhi, India
 
  • #183
am male from macedonia - estern europe.
any body want to visit me this summer?
 
  • #184
female..canada!
 
  • #185
wow...i just read the whole thread..
by the way my background is indian, born in the UAE, and came to Canada 7 yrs ago (im 16 now) and the only language i know to speak is english..oh and a little french

Monique way impressed..you are much browner than me..lol..sad thing is that most indian restaurants make me get sick, even tho the food is good...lol

Ive always wanted to visit Greece and Rome..anyone from there?
 
  • #186
Originally posted by nix
wow...i just read the whole thread..
by the way my background is indian, born in the UAE, and came to Canada 7 yrs ago (im 16 now) and the only language i know to speak is english..oh and a little french

Monique way impressed..you are much browner than me..lol..sad thing is that most indian restaurants make me get sick, even tho the food is good...lol

Ive always wanted to visit Greece and Rome..anyone from there?

It is probably that u are not adapted to it
Its spicy and hot

We do have Mac so u may enjoy it to
 
  • #187
lol, yes the food is spicy :) and yes I don't tolerate it well but it just tastes too good! Mirch is one of my favorite appatizers, which is basically a stuffed batter deep fried Capsicum (hot pepper)
 
  • #188
Yup Its true
From around the world : i love Pizza with paneer and capsicum topings it makes it hot and tikha
 
  • #189
Europe

16 Fmale, England Britain Europe
 
  • #190
male, singapore
 
  • #191
Male-Athens-Greece-Physics Undergraduate.
 
  • #192
Male from Canada/QC
 
  • #193
Me, all man from the Sonoran desert part of these here Newnited States of America.
 
  • #194
Female , Jamaica

Interesting poll...interesting reasons, Monique.

CJ
 
  • #195
Male
United States
 
  • #196
Female
United States
 
  • #197
Male
Florida
Southeastern United States
 
  • #198
<--- New hampshire (keene state)
 
  • #199
Male.
Look left.

cookiemonster
 
  • #200
Hello, buddies! This is a cool BBS site. I am male from China, but study in Finland/Germany now.
 
  • #201
Hello Aspiration.

What languages do you speak?
 
  • #202
Male. Indiana, United States
 
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  • #203
Female, Los Angeles, CA, USA


(I am surprised - for some reason I thought Motai was British!)
 
  • #204
Where would you classify Israel exactly? We are in the Middle East but anything but Islamic. :rolleyes:
 
  • #205
Math Is Hard said:
(I am surprised - for some reason I thought Motai was British!)

Now what would make you think that?

All American here, as I do not like taxation without representation and occasionally poke fun at Europe's leaders like Henry VIII.
 
  • #206
Chen said:
Where would you classify Israel exactly? We are in the Middle East but anything but Islamic. :rolleyes:
At least you are surrounded by Islamic countries right? I agree, it is hard to generalize into groupings.
 
  • #207
motai said:
Now what would make you think that?

All American here, as I do not like taxation without representation and occasionally poke fun at Europe's leaders like Henry VIII.

Sorry about that, Motai. I don't know why I had that idea in my head. From now on I will quit imagining your posts with a British accent, though!
 
  • #208
Male, Paris.
 
  • #209
Male and Australian.

[off-topic]

but it annoys me how when people ask my nationality, i go "australian", but they really expect to know my parents nationality, that too being "australian", then they go on to ask where they are born, that being "hong kong" and then suddenly I'm perceived to be from "hong kong" too..

[/off-topic]
 
  • #210
Monique said:
I'd also like to find out whether there are any other Dutch people here, otherwise I have some serious recruiting to do.

I'm not Dutch, but i studied in Leiden and my Nederlands is fading through lack of practice. Any snippets of Dutch would be greatly appreciated by this UK male. Bedankt!
 

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