The Nonlinear Library EA - Number of EAs per capita by country by OscarD
Jun 30, 2024
01:05
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I was surprised I couldn't find a graph like this already on the forum, so I made one and thought I would share it:
The data is from the 2022 EA survey,[1] and here is my sheet.
The main surprising thing to me is that English-speaking countries are less dominant than I expected, in this per capita framing. My vague sense was that the EA community was notably more popular in the Anglosphere than even in other rich countries, but eyeballing this data makes me think I was wrong: Northern/Western Europe seems to have quite comparable rates of EAs.
And what on earth is happening in Estonia? Perhaps some Estonian EAs can tell us all what you are doing that works so well!
1. ^
Maybe there are quite different response rates by country, and this could explain some of the variance but I assume there isn't a large or systematic effect here.
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I was surprised I couldn't find a graph like this already on the forum, so I made one and thought I would share it:
The data is from the 2022 EA survey,[1] and here is my sheet.
The main surprising thing to me is that English-speaking countries are less dominant than I expected, in this per capita framing. My vague sense was that the EA community was notably more popular in the Anglosphere than even in other rich countries, but eyeballing this data makes me think I was wrong: Northern/Western Europe seems to have quite comparable rates of EAs.
And what on earth is happening in Estonia? Perhaps some Estonian EAs can tell us all what you are doing that works so well!
1. ^
Maybe there are quite different response rates by country, and this could explain some of the variance but I assume there isn't a large or systematic effect here.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org