Thanks, I just found myself thinking ‘Australia seems to be a large net exporter of EAs’, being in that category myself, so then went looking for data on where EAs are from or live now.
That’s a reasonable hypothesis, and is perhaps consistent with the fact that there is more variance in EA-ness of smaller countries. I am guessing there isn’t a particularly deep reason Estonia has more EAs than Latvia and Lithuania, for instance, and just for historically contingent reasons there happened to be some good organisers in Estonia a while ago?
Overall I suppose I don’t want to infer too much from this data, but indeed it is interesting to theorise, we would just need more/​better information to test various explanatory hypotheses.
Thanks, I just found myself thinking ‘Australia seems to be a large net exporter of EAs’, being in that category myself, so then went looking for data on where EAs are from or live now. That’s a reasonable hypothesis, and is perhaps consistent with the fact that there is more variance in EA-ness of smaller countries. I am guessing there isn’t a particularly deep reason Estonia has more EAs than Latvia and Lithuania, for instance, and just for historically contingent reasons there happened to be some good organisers in Estonia a while ago? Overall I suppose I don’t want to infer too much from this data, but indeed it is interesting to theorise, we would just need more/​better information to test various explanatory hypotheses.
Ah okie cool, and yeah for sure!