Why does it seem like Canadians are overrepresented on EEVblog? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 03:39:56 pm
content: I am Canadian.Seems like a lot of contributors on this site are too.Perhaps it's just selection bias.Canada contains ~.5% of the world's population; but definitely more than ~5% of EEVblog contributors (or so it seems to me).

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 03:43:42 pm
content: Maybe because electronics is largely an indoor sport. It's cold in Canada.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 03:50:32 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on February 25, 2025, 03:43:42 pmOnly during the winter (in poluated areas at least)The summer can beboiling!!

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 04:08:21 pm
content: Yeh, but then there are bugs flying around outside that want ALL of your blood. Back inside you go.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 04:20:43 pm
content: The bugs in Africa have malaria tho.Surely that's much worse.

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 04:33:37 pm
content: Quoteyou've obviously never met a scottish midge,they class deet as a condiment.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 05:31:09 pm
content: It's an English speaking forum.And probably observation bias.

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 05:42:22 pm
content: Quote from: Langdon on February 25, 2025, 03:39:56 pmLangdon, you said that wrong. It should be .....I AM CANADIANGet it right!

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 05:59:40 pm
content: @edpalmer42Bravo. You can have the 51st star in the upper left corner.

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 06:10:51 pm
content: QuoteOi bugger off ,that 51 state title belongs to the uk,we even have a little folk song celebrating the fact.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 07:22:45 pm
content: Because it is an english speaking countryI sometimes fell that 90% of this forum is Americans, British, Canadians chatting togetherYou can also see that a country like china or india with more than 2.5 billion people combined has very little presence in the forums here compared to the population sizeSame thing applies to arabic speaking countries, I think I am the only Syrian who uses eevblogSame thing applies to japan or korea

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 09:01:42 pm
content: I don't follow politics in that area. But it seems to me that good v. bad is not a very clear distinction. The people can be wonderful, at least the ones I have known and worked with were. The governments, not so. We avoided any discussion of that subject.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 09:05:13 pm
content: I never said anything about good vs. bad.What about bad vs bad?Neutral vs bad?etc.Though it could be good vs. bad. (Or is it bad vs good?)No clue.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 09:11:58 pm
content: Hey, I'm sorry. I am clueless about politics in Syria and Ukraine. But nothing good comes from civil wars that kill millions, including the American Civil War. By that, I think WWII was a just war in both theaters. WWI, not so much.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 09:33:39 pm
content: Quote from: Langdon on February 25, 2025, 08:55:40 pmI don't think that this is the correct place to discuss these things and I usually avoid talking about these topics , I will answer your question since you've asked , but please don't turn this thread into a political discussion, this is not a politics forumThis is The most fake news I've ever heard actually , the old government ruled the country like north Korea (type on YouTube in Arabic , go to google translate and translate something like "government bombing on civilians in homs or Damascus" and then search about it on yt), however these new guys are good guys , I've met personally a lot of them , they are not isis or terrorist groups , they are just normal people like me and you , the government killed their families , destroyed their homes and invited iran to the country , so they overthrown itPlease don't take news about here from the media or YouTube , I've personally watched hours of so called "Situation in Syria Explained" or those 1 hour podcasts , they have no clue about what is happening here , I usually watch these videos just for fun or to make jokes about them , since they think that here we live in tents or that all people there are isis or that Syria is similar to Afghanistan, which are all wrongThe fact that no one of these "media" bothered to go there to investigate (or they didn't hire any Arabic translator to translate from the Media there ) says a lot about these "political analysis channels"It is just like someone who just learned ohms law , then decided to do a series on yt where he claims to find design errors in Tektronix oscilloscopes , to the ordinary person these videos seems true , Tektronix makes horrible oscilloscopes, but for someone with some knowledge he will know that this is nonsense, Tektronix makes excellent oscilloscopesIf you want to know why we hate the government : killed 1 million , kicked out 10 million out of the country , population shrank from 24 to Less than 13 million , average wages are 20$ while the officials had millions of dollars stolen from the people , I want to you to search about "sednaya prison" (in Arabic "سجن صيدنايا") to get a better picture about the "government" , be careful the search results might be disturbingThings that lead to death sentence: saying the word "dollar" , using foreign forums like EEVblog , talking with foreigners , reading books banned by government "the art of electronics was one of them" , buying any RF equipment, having spectrum analyzers, buying from aliexpress or Amazon , talking about politics, saying that "I hate the government" , saying "I don't like the supreme leader" , using discord/teamspeak , using camera to film the streetsAnd sooooo on..........But I think that killing 1 million is enough reason to hate the government and want it overthrownI'm not here to discuss politics since this is EEVblog not Politicsblog , and the fact that no one here visited Syria or bothered to watch the local media so no one here has a clue about what's happening in DamascusIf you want a short answer: no , they are not bad guys , they respect all different religions in Syria including christians (they celebrated Christmas this year under their rule without any problems , even my neighbor is Christian and no one harmed him)If you want to have more information about the new leader , I suggest watching these 2 videoshttps://youtu.be/KaB3ke4SHKE?si=rImE74bcZ65MuKmjTake this as a bounce (it is for Arabs in general but it has English translation) :https://youtu.be/-iWCRJTww4Q?si=wCFdk6XBPc8bK0rVAnd ur welcome to ask me on private msg about SyriaNo politics discussion here in the thread pleaseThank you !

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 10:07:51 pm
content: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/mlist/?sort=posts;start=0;descYou could scrape the top few thousand members and come up with a users per country, and posts per country list. The problem is I don't see any way to find the country flag on that list. So maybe a mod would have to do it.But looks like this thread is going to be locked at any minute anyway due to usual bsIn terms of youtube, from2021 surveyit was:- United states 25%- UK 11%- Germany 10%- Australia 8%- Canada ~5%So probably just bias as mentioned above. And some time bias as well, as you'll be online around the same time as other canadians.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2025, 11:31:38 pm
content: Quote from: osmax_br on February 25, 2025, 09:33:39 pmSorry.Oops.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 12:25:19 am
content: At the risk of a somewhat political comment, when travelling overseas it is not uncommon for Americans to identify themselves as Canadians. Rightly or wrongly, Americans are not popular in many parts of the world, while most people seem to be at worst neutral about Canadians. Maybe there is some of that going on here. As far as I know the moderators don't do anything to check nationality identification.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 01:11:34 am
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on February 25, 2025, 09:01:42 pmSame here! Maybe we can state engineers are peaceful people. Only want to explore, build and improve.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 01:17:24 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on February 26, 2025, 01:11:34 amNetherlands seems to me has been represented here quite a bit too. I just notice the flags all the time.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 01:21:19 am
content: Quote from: xrunner on February 26, 2025, 01:17:24 amMaybe it is the same guyHe has 28000 posts , so you will see this flag twice a day , or even more !

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 01:38:37 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on February 26, 2025, 01:11:34 amI can't say that I'm an engineer as you can see from my signatureBut unlike doctors, engineer from all over the world has a common language, I mean by that the physics laws naming is the same , it is always called ohms law , transistors are transistors in all languages, diode is a diode and so onProgramming in c for example is universal also , there is no chinese version of assembly or cUnlike other majors like in medicine where the terminologies are different, as someone studying anatomy at 5 am in 3 languages at the same time , I can say that engineers are blessed , you don't need to know "ohm's law" translation in english,latin,your native language

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 01:53:50 am
content: No I don't buy that engineers aren't any more peaceful than average. There is probably a conflation between peacefulness and introversion.All I can find in terms of data is this thoughhttps://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-38154-001.htmlElectronics engineers were low on neuroticism, extroversion, and conscientiousness, high for agreeableness. I guess you could argue that last one is considered peaceful?

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 02:55:07 am
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on February 25, 2025, 09:11:58 pmPoint of fact: Ukraine is not a cvil war. Ukraine is a country, not a part of Russia. Russia attacked Ukraine, so Ukraine had no choice but to fight or to surrender.It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 08:53:45 am
content: Quote from: xrunner on February 26, 2025, 01:17:24 amIt's the country with the highest percentage of English as second language.I was getting by for years here and Belgium without speaking Dutch. Even though I started learning it now.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 10:11:26 am
content: Quote from: brucehoult on February 26, 2025, 02:55:07 amHow many civil wars has the US been a belligerent in from 1750 to 1950?

author: 5U4GB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 11:37:14 am
content: Quote from: themadhippy on February 25, 2025, 04:33:37 pmCanada doesn't have mosquitos though, they have sparrows with phlebotomy needles.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 03:10:47 pm
content: Quote from: 5U4GB on February 26, 2025, 11:37:14 amYeah it does!Come here in August and see!The thing is, places with limited (or nonexistent) greenspace have minimal mosquitos.Most of Toronto is fairly mosquito-free.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2025, 04:49:44 pm
content: Tech-oriented internet fora, as a phenomenon, and activity on them are heavily biased towards north-west cultures. Canadian population is about 4% of that. Add language as an additional barrier for comfortable communication.I’d also not exclude the possibility, that the first factor is further amplified: biases in exposure to forum’s existence affecting users influx. But that is something we have limited information on. Assuming trust in scarce summaries Alphabet gives to Dave, he could reject this (but not confirm). But that’s all.Quote from: Langdon on February 25, 2025, 09:05:13 pmPerhapschaotic lawful?