My sense is that what’s happening here is that small countries have more cohesive communities, and therefore a larger % of the EA community answers the survey.
I don’t think one can infer that without having the whole distribution across different countries. It may just be that small countries have greater variance. (Though I don’t know what principle the author used for excluding certain countries.)
Another point regarding small countries. Imagine, hypothetically, that EA Estonia and EA Poland are on an identical membership growth curve. Perhaps EAGx attendance is about the same, and is growing at a rate of, say, 10% per year in both countries. Intuitively that could suggest comparable levels of cultural affinity for EA. However, since Poland has a population which is 28x as large, it ends up looking very different in OP’s chart.
Speaking of growth, it would be interesting to see a plot for percent annual growth by country as well. Would Estonia’s growth number be high, indicating cultural affinity? Or would its growth number be low, indicating saturation?
Perhaps the reason the Anglosphere has so many EAs is just because so many EA materials are in English. Might be interesting to compare the early growth curve in Anglosphere countries vs emerging EA countries. It would be super cool if we are on track to become a more global movement!
My sense is that what’s happening here is that small countries have more cohesive communities, and therefore a larger % of the EA community answers the survey.
I don’t think one can infer that without having the whole distribution across different countries. It may just be that small countries have greater variance. (Though I don’t know what principle the author used for excluding certain countries.)
Another point regarding small countries. Imagine, hypothetically, that EA Estonia and EA Poland are on an identical membership growth curve. Perhaps EAGx attendance is about the same, and is growing at a rate of, say, 10% per year in both countries. Intuitively that could suggest comparable levels of cultural affinity for EA. However, since Poland has a population which is 28x as large, it ends up looking very different in OP’s chart.
Speaking of growth, it would be interesting to see a plot for percent annual growth by country as well. Would Estonia’s growth number be high, indicating cultural affinity? Or would its growth number be low, indicating saturation?
Perhaps the reason the Anglosphere has so many EAs is just because so many EA materials are in English. Might be interesting to compare the early growth curve in Anglosphere countries vs emerging EA countries. It would be super cool if we are on track to become a more global movement!