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0 pointshellofunk6y ago0 comments

Except they excluded the country with the highest English language proficiency on the continent of Europe, the Netherlands. I suspect there’s another reason.

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sgdesign6y ago· 2 in thread

(Survey author) The Netherlands doesn't have a large population, so it's never going to show up as a large part of the results. For next time it would be interesting to also let you toggle a relative view of participation vs population though.

hellofunkOP6y ago

It’s a small country but with nearly half the population of Spain, and the most densely populated country in the world outside of Taiwan. Not to mention a massive development community (and one of the largest internet infrastructures in the world). So, more relevant than you’d think :)

woutr_be6y ago

Taiwan and The Netherlands are not even close to being the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan is 652/km² and Netherlands is 418/km². Compare that to Macau 20,286/km² or Singapore at 7,804/km².

But I agree that The Netherlands has a pretty big development community, and generally their English is fairly close to being native.

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