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On April 23 2011 06:50 Euronyme wrote:
This can't be right. Are there really that many more Americans than Eu0ropeans on TL? Wow..
I think the poll needs to be up longer to give accurate information. It's almost alarming that there are so many Canadians in comparison to Europeans O_o
That is actually rather surprising given how small the population of Canada is, but maybe Germany and France have their own equivalent of TL? But even then, UK alone has twice the population of Canada.
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The average age results truly shows how much of a user influx came with SC II
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On April 23 2011 02:30 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2011 01:26 JieXian wrote:On April 22 2011 16:34 mrflakes wrote:On April 22 2011 04:34 Almin wrote:
The "Poll: Ethnicity/Race" is racist yo. There's no option for "I prefer not to answer" or "Mixed" like most US surveys are now.
What's up with that?
By the way, I'm white, BUT I prefer not to answer! Well, I think the obvious choice here is not to answer that poll. Someone please explain to me why a white is having problems with racism. I saw another white guy at the airport who refused to fill in their race. Why? Actually, in America, the only way to legally discriminate is to be bigoted against white males. Various laws have forced a "reverse discrimination". Use a racial slur directed at anyone who isn't white, get your ass kicked, the guy gets off (most places, obviously there will be some variance for community.) Use a racial slur directed against a white guy, and there's a good chance that if the white guy swings, he'll go to jail for a hate crime for discrimination against the way they like to talk or something. (Don't know if this has happened, but the atmosphere created by the laws makes most people not really want to try and find out.) Oh, and lets not forget jobs. Equally qualified? White male is the last candidate to be hired, with decisions being based on gender and ethnicity "equality". Very equal, if the white guy is screwed for being born in the majority demographic for a lot of job positions.
Sorry, but this is absolutely not the case. Its reversed. In virtually every profession, white male is on top and makes the most money.
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On April 23 2011 07:23 Arun wrote:
The average age results truly shows how much of a user influx came with SC II
You didn't think that the poll answers were 5 times as big was a clear tell?
On April 23 2011 07:21 Falling wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2011 06:50 Euronyme wrote:
This can't be right. Are there really that many more Americans than Eu0ropeans on TL? Wow..
I think the poll needs to be up longer to give accurate information. It's almost alarming that there are so many Canadians in comparison to Europeans O_o That is actually rather surprising given how small the population of Canada is, but maybe Germany and France have their own equivalent of TL? But even then, UK alone has twice the population of Canada.
I don't think so. I think everyone who can speak English goes to TL, and those who can't generally stay away from the internetz.
I guess there's reddit though, but I get the feeling there's mostly north americans in there as well.
I think SC2 isn't very popular in France or UK. I think it's mainly Germany and Sweden in western Europe, and Ukraine and Russia in Eastern Europe.
I believe that's the main reason actually.
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I guess the Census thread is as good a thread as any to make a first post on TL. Been lurking for a while as I come to grips with what goes on this forum and what does not.
Also, since the poll asked me to specify, I'm from South Africa.
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On April 23 2011 07:52 stephls wrote:Show nested quote +On April 23 2011 02:30 JingleHell wrote:On April 23 2011 01:26 JieXian wrote:On April 22 2011 16:34 mrflakes wrote:On April 22 2011 04:34 Almin wrote:
The "Poll: Ethnicity/Race" is racist yo. There's no option for "I prefer not to answer" or "Mixed" like most US surveys are now.
What's up with that?
By the way, I'm white, BUT I prefer not to answer! Well, I think the obvious choice here is not to answer that poll. Someone please explain to me why a white is having problems with racism. I saw another white guy at the airport who refused to fill in their race. Why? Actually, in America, the only way to legally discriminate is to be bigoted against white males. Various laws have forced a "reverse discrimination". Use a racial slur directed at anyone who isn't white, get your ass kicked, the guy gets off (most places, obviously there will be some variance for community.) Use a racial slur directed against a white guy, and there's a good chance that if the white guy swings, he'll go to jail for a hate crime for discrimination against the way they like to talk or something. (Don't know if this has happened, but the atmosphere created by the laws makes most people not really want to try and find out.) Oh, and lets not forget jobs. Equally qualified? White male is the last candidate to be hired, with decisions being based on gender and ethnicity "equality". Very equal, if the white guy is screwed for being born in the majority demographic for a lot of job positions. Sorry, but this is absolutely not the case. Its reversed. In virtually every profession, white male is on top and makes the most money.
You didn't read what I said. I'm talking about hiring, not about what demographic happens to have gone to school for a certain skill set and gotten jobs in certain fields. Demographics are a lot more complex than a straight 1 for 1 numbers game, and aren't even taken into account in the laws that force a company to hire based on race or gender just to try to even things out.
What happens if on paper, two candidates for a job are equal, but the personality of the white male seems better for working in the group? Potential lawsuit.
My wife works with someone who does literally half the work she does (she works in IT, and she's shown me tickets closed by herself and this co-worker, he's worked there a month longer than her and closed less than half as many), but it's taking months to work up enough paper trail for her white boss to be able to safely fire the guy.
Anyway, this isn't the purpose of this thread, I don't want to derail it, I was just answering a question. If you want to debate the merits of affirmative action laws, PM me.
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No race option for Protoss?
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Oh nice graphs and charts. Is the Lurker number accurate because that couldn't have been done with data from this thread as you need an account to vote in polls.
Edit: nvm
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Interesting graphs. I used to post regularly before I got overwhelmed with projects at uni so I'm quite the lurker these days.
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On April 23 2011 23:59 BlackMagister wrote:
Oh nice graphs and charts. Is the Lurker number accurate because that couldn't have been done with data from this thread as you need an account to vote in polls.
No you don't.
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Interesting polls! Gives us an idea of who we actually is talking to on this awesome forum :D
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On April 24 2011 07:08 MyWindows wrote:
Wow we are 95 males :d
Half of which are probably pro and near pro gamers. lol From now on I only eat Swedish Fish and Korean BBQ during days of heavy SC2 play. 
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There should be an other other race and/or an other other location haha
I kid. These graphs are pretty sweet.
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What happened to the "Why do you come here" graph? 
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theres never a "central america" option in the "where" polls, one would think the world does know we exist seeing that we are a popular vacationing spot at the very least
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The scaling of ages is off, but if it were fixed it actually looks like the ages aren't that different...
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Why is there no category for East Indian? If you are grouping East Indian as Middle Eastern than that is incorrect. I believe East Indians don't identify themselves as Middle Eastern and Arabs and East Indians are completely separate races. It is odd that you would put us in the same category
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Pie charts.
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