Thanks a lot to all the users who took the time to answer the poll!
I was curious about the site users' distribution of native (and other known) languages.
I made a poll using SurveyMonkey (now closed). I hope you find the results interesting.
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The results will be publicly available, of course– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 4, 2014 at 20:08
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Google chrome: "This page is in Spanish, would you like to translate it"? I clicked no and half expected it would automatically check the Spanish box for me :P.– Jacob AkkerboomCommented Mar 4, 2014 at 20:27
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@JacobAkkerboom The stup*d poll site decided the language for me and didn't let me change it. The only remaining text in Spanish is the "submit" button label, though.– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 4, 2014 at 20:33
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The add looks fine to me, except for the modern-style text font. The thin strokes get lost in the background. Recommend an Egyptian (slab-serif) font to make the text more legible.– m_goldbergCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:19
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@m_goldberg Thanks! I don't have your suggested font at hand, but used a bolder one. Please check it now.– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:38
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It's much easier to read now. I question the capitalization of "Language" and "Survey".– m_goldbergCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:45
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@m_goldberg That's because it's a modern ad– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:48
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Then it should have "Do We Speak" not "do we speak" to be consistent.– m_goldbergCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:59
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Will the Mathematica StackExchange username be publicly available, too?– xzczd ModCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 8:12
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@xzczd Only if we vote here to do so (and nobody opposes). You can leave it blank, of course.– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 8:21
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@xzczd If you filled it and had second thoughts just drop me a line and I'll wipe it.– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 8:24
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I myself won't mind if it's published if I have filled it :)– xzczd ModCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 8:38
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Well, I missed the native languages like C, Python and similar...– István ZacharCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 10:00
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@IstvánZachar That's going to be included in the next poll chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14111680#14111680– Dr. belisariusCommented Mar 5, 2014 at 11:23
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Interesting poll! But options include Volapük but not Mandinka? Impressive selection anyway.– Oleksandr R.Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 19:49
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2 Answers
Results so far (95 users):
{{"Bulgarian", 1}, {"Greek. Modern", 1}, {"Igbo", 1}, {"Japanese",
1}, {"Latvian", 1}, {"Norwegian Bokmål", 1}, {"Slovene",
1}, {"Telugu", 1}, {"Turkish", 1}, {"Uzbek", 1}, {"Hindi",
2}, {"Hungarian", 2}, {"Dutch", 3}, {"Finnish", 3}, {"Italian",
3}, {"Portuguese", 3}, {"Swedish", 3}, {"Chinese", 4}, {"French",
4}, {"Polish", 4}, {"Russian", 5}, {"Spanish; Castilian",
8}, {"German", 10}, {"English", 27}}
{{"Afrikaans", 1}, {"Bihari", 1}, {"Bulgarian", 1}, {"Croatian",
1}, {"Esperanto", 1}, {"Estonian", 1}, {"Igbo", 1}, {"Kannada",
1}, {"Latvian", 1}, {"Malayalam", 1}, {"Norwegian Bokmål",
1}, {"Norwegian Nynorsk", 1}, {"Romanian", 1}, {"Slovak",
1}, {"Slovene", 1}, {"Telugu", 1}, {"Turkish", 1}, {"Uzbek",
1}, {"Welsh", 1}, {"Wolof", 1}, {"Catalan; Valencian",
2}, {"Danish", 2}, {"Greek. Modern", 2}, {"Hungarian",
2}, {"Finnish", 3}, {"Hindi", 3}, {"Norwegian", 3}, {"Chinese",
4}, {"Polish", 4}, {"Japanese", 5}, {"Portuguese", 5}, {"Italian",
6}, {"Dutch", 7}, {"Latin", 7}, {"Russian", 7}, {"Swedish",
7}, {"Spanish; Castilian", 20}, {"French", 24}, {"German",
26}, {"English", 84}}
You may want to correlate these results with the "real people" world's population:
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No one speaks English as their first language? How interesting! Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:06
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It isn't clear whether or not to include one's first language in one's answers to second question. Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:17
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@m_goldberg You're right. Edited asking to include also the first language Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 0:41
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2Is this a ploy to weed out the monoglots amongst the group? Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 13:57
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Some additional statistics:
Where in the world could you find users?
Number of users per country:
How many users are in countries where the "Official Language" is different from his/her first language?
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very nice. I presume the timezone and location data from the user ids?...i guess you can add {long,lat,tz}={153,-27.5,+10}...– ubpdqnCommented Mar 9, 2014 at 8:28
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@ubpdqn I didn't know that when I posted the poll, but it reports the IPs (in a very awkward format, though). The rest is easy to get from there. Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 8:32
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@belisarius I deleted a comment that in my mind was reflective as I thought it might have been ambiguously perceived. I think these analytics are interesting (with sampling issues acknowledged) and you are publicly sharing them for all.– ubpdqnCommented Mar 10, 2014 at 6:20
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@Öskå If you really feel bad about that please refer to the edit I've done in the question. But I guess the usage is anonymous enough to be on the safe side ;) Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 13:04
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1I just saw the edit & I don't mind of course :) Waldo is here to protect us anyway.– ÖskåCommented Mar 11, 2014 at 13:08
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I never knew that survey monkey collected and provided the IP to poll creators. I suppose it is useful for fraud prevention, but that is probably something that needs to be done by the software. If you were also a moderator, you would easily be able to match a user with a response with the IP information from both data sets...– rm -rf ModCommented Mar 11, 2014 at 15:52
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@rm-rf I didn't know either. In addition, the platform really sucks. I think we need a better one for the next poll. Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:20
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@belisarius Ok, I can make something for that and run it on my app server. I need to first learn some SQL sanitization techniques :)– rm -rf ModCommented Mar 11, 2014 at 17:04
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@belisarius nice 'heat' map of world...look forward to more polls... καληνύχτα– ubpdqnCommented Mar 13, 2014 at 13:53