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
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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
  • #241
Male, Holland
 
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  • #242
Male, from Australia. And this is my 1st post too, hi everybody! :)
 
  • #243
Male, Florida, US.
 
  • #244
Male, Utah,USA
 
  • #245
Male, United States of America
 
  • #246
i don't know wheather i am a bit late for this.
Male, Malaysia (Well, u spell Malaysia as Malesia)
 
  • #247
Male, The Netherlands
 
  • #248
Male. Slovenia
 
  • #249
MALE.
INDIA
 
  • #250
Woohoo go new zealand :P
 
  • #251
male, belgium
 
  • #252
Chicago, IL
 
  • #253
Male: Madrid


SPAIN

SPAIN

SPAIN
 
  • #254
Male- USA- Michigan
 
  • #255
Male

Canada

Originally from Ukraine
 
  • #256
Male, Dominican Republic, Caribbean :cool:
 
  • #257
Male, Turkish Republic-Istanbul
 
  • #258
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.
Here is a male one (living in Sweden).
 
  • #259
Monique
I'd also like to find out whether there are any other Dutch people here, otherwise I have some serious recruiting to do.

Why "otherwise"? Just do it :smile:
 
  • #260
Vector Sum:

Big Boy

American (Northeast), with Immigrant mother (Britain) and Canadian Father
 
  • #261
"in Dutch we've got a word for people like that: mierenneukers, haha! I hope nobody will be able to translate that since it won't look pretty in English, lol."

Yes you are right about that. I've seen quite a lengthy website with all kinds of Dutch insults on it. The predominant theme was genitalia and diseases.

I generally don't give a lot of details in profiles for security reasons.
 
  • #262
Male, Belgium, Dutch speaking (besides French, English, ...)
 
  • #263
Male, Italian, working in Germany
 
  • #264
You will soon count me among the lost souls in the US. America rules ! :cry:
 
  • #265
I do not know that the Islamic world is that small hehe

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Well, accordgin to my modest knowldge, and if my memort is not wrong, the arabic world [aka middle east and north africa] even it is 14 millinion km^2 and with the huge population it has...Get ready to hear the next...

IT IS STILL ONLY 20% of the Islamic world... to be more precise it is 19.78%..

Hahaha, i found it amazing how many people in the "Western World" don;t know that..[yeah, i am from the western world...even i lived very long years in the middel east!]

[i am not mkaing fun of anybody..but i just find it funy how usually arabs are considered the vast majority of muslims...] :smile: :smile:
 
  • #266
UK and the forum name gives the gender away.

What a great place - I start composing my first post in the Quantum Theory section and end up answering my question before I got as far as the Submit button. So, apart from this post, I'll go back to lurking...

Bob.
 
  • #267
Where's that thread about necroposting...?
In a way, I'm glad that this came up. The thread far predates me, so I went ahead and voted since I'd never seen it before.
Male, near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
 
  • #268
This poll apparently hasn't been active in over four years, so it's got to be way out of date. I'm sure we have a lot more members from Asia than the poll results indicate as I write this.

Danger said:
Male, near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Calgary, eh? That's where I got stuck in a freakin' blizzard in the middle of the freakin' month of May, five years ago!
 

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  • #269
jtbell said:
That's where I got stuck in a freakin' blizzard in the middle of the freakin' month of May, five years ago!

You're not an Albertan until that has happened to you in August. :-p
 
  • #270
:smile: I just went back and caught the interaction between Monique and MrRobinParsons, who really had his panties in a bunch at the notion of being lumped in with us crude, crass Americans. Wow, Monique, you must have infinite patience!

Female, Seattle area, Washington State
 

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