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Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results)
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Submit your response here!
- Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-country-were-you-born-in-3
- This survey closes on May 10, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
- The results will be published on May 10 shortly after the survey has closed. I'll edit this topic and post a comment about it!
The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:
| Question | Survey opens | Survey closes |
|---|---|---|
| How old are you? | ||
| What country do you live in? | ||
| What country were you born in? | 2026-05-03 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-10 10:00 UTC |
| What languages can you speak? | 2026-05-10 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-17 10:00 UTC |
Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.
Thank you all for participating!
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 174 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the visualizations and a rough comparison with the previous survey! Here's a few quick stats:
- 41 distinct countries are represented!
- Spread across the following continents:
- America at 45.7%
- Europe at 39.9%
- Asia at 8.7%
- Oceania at 5.8%
- With the top 5 countries of most responses:
- United States at 36.2%
- United Kingdom at 8.6%
- Canada at 6.9%
- France at 4.0%
- Australia at 3.4%
- And the results for whether people were living in the country they were born in:
- Yes at 74.7%
- No at 23.0%
- No answer at 2.3%
- View the full results dashboard here
- If you have any ideas for vizualisations or stats I can add I'd love to hear them!
- ZIP download of the data
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 174 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the visualizations and a rough comparison with the previous survey! Here's a few quick stats:
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)
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1/4 of responders moving countries feels higher than expected. Good on ya!
Two Romanians, yay! I'm not alone :)
Stealing an idea from kfwyre. ;)
If you'd like to be notified when future surveys open and close with the results, let me know here or via a private message and I'll
@-mentionyou. :)Hey, that’s my idea!* No fair! Give it back!
(Seriously though, please add me to the list. 😁)
*This isn’t actually true. I can no longer remember who either suggested or did the first notification comment like that, but it wasn’t me. I just adopted the practice.
I'd also like to be notified of future surveys please! It's always fun to participate in these and find out more about where people are from.
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Ping me too plz. :)
I'll take a ping please! I just now remembered to look at results of the last couple of surveys. Thanks!
Let me know please!
Add me too please!
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+1 on the ping, please. :-)
I'll hop on the ping train. Thanks for doing all this, Bauke!
Ping me too please!
Ping please :)
Yes please!
Count me in!
Ping please!
I'd like that, thanks
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Yes, please ping me!
Please ping me.
I wasn't sure where to put this comment, given that there doesn't seem to be any preamble or discussion prior to a question being posted. I wanted to comment on the upcoming question
Answers here can be nuanced. You may need to set up some boundaries around "can speak". Or, allow for specifying a level of proficiency. My point is language proficiency is not black and white.
Anywhere is fine to discuss the surveys! It probably helps the most to keep the discussion in whatever the current running survey is so the topic keeps getting bumped and more people see it. :P
You bring up a good point with the proficiency though. Maybe a good way to structure the survey would be something like this:
I feel this would allow us to have enough detail in the responses to give a useful result without making it overly complicated, what do you think?
Yep. That would address the concern without being overly technical. Could possibly even skip question 1, to simplify further.
Just be sure to provide the ability to provide multiple options for native language as well, since one can have more than one native language.
Definitely going to leave it as free text fields so I don't have to come up with a list of possible answers. :D Then anyone can enter their answers like "English and French" for example.
Waiting for the dude who'll say "Klingon"
loDpu' chaHbe' Hoch jatlhwI'pu'
No but for real I used to speak it a little bit, to the point that the way it's spoken in more modern Trek is the one thing that upsets me about nutrek
I’m gonna say python so there’s that.
What
YEAHHHH!!!
🆗
I can hear the link before I even clicked it.
What's the question?
Is that an anglophone country, Brett?
What?
Even though I no longer fall into the category where it matters, I'm glad these surveys distinguish between where you're from and where you currently live. You'd be surprised how many surveys don't.
Survey's not loading for me for some reason but: born in SE Tennessee, currently living in Seattle. The difference is...bracing. In a good way.
That's odd, is the main survey page not loading or is it that after you've submitted a response the page isn't loading?
Does this one work? https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-question
For the record I just now tried it and still no. Ftr, might be on my side.
Hmm, well if you ever figure it out let me know! I'd love to make it work for you if it's something I can change on the site.
I’ve not been able to participate either. Could not participate in the first one where you were lookingfor survey questions we would like to see. I could participate in the age one, but not in the last two.
Edit: I could participate in the current survey on languages. It’s the submit button that would hang up on me.
Can you try submit this form with some text and reply what you submitted (so I know it's you :P)? https://survey.tildes.community/form/test-submit
With that test submit info I can check if your submit came through for the languages survey yet the response page possibly didn't get shown.
I was able to do the the language survey, just not the two prior (countries). I was able to do age survey. I was not able to submit survey questions (the very first one).
The test text input is stuck on submit.
Thanks for testing it! I'm not seeing any submissions on the test form so it must be something client-side preventing the submit from going through...
Does anything appear in the browser console? You can open that with Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox or Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome and then try submitting. I'm expecting it'll either be a JavaScript issue from n8n's Form functionality or a networking problem where it's blocking the submission for whatever reason.
I copied the link and opened in safari. That seemed to have done the trick. I’m on mobile and generally use brave. Thank you for looking into it :)
I do see that one come in on the server!
I just tried Brave myself on Android but that worked so I'm thinking it may be something Brave iOS specific. I'll see if I can figure it out more but that's good to know a different browser does work!
Belgisch?
A side effect of living where I do, compared to where I'm from, is that I never get to use my native languages.
Czech Republic
I will put it in the survey as well.
I know a surprising amount of people from Czechia.
Me too! What a coincidence!
I guess I’ll start the thread for the States. California checking in.
Look, I know California sometimes feels like its own country, but it's not its own country...yet.
(I for one would love to live in the Great Democratic People's Republic of California. As long as the NIMBYs are thrown into the sea)
For the record,
Virginia here!Brainfarted; this is where we were born, not where we live. I was born in Illinois. Chicagoland.Usually, country names with more "freedom" words in the title are....working on it, shall we say.
Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
United States of America
you can't coast off the PRC for three consecutive examples, that's just lazy. That's three times as many as there are "freedom-y" words in its name. Give some representation to the small democratic republics and people's democratic republics of the world.
:) aww, I didn't want to name other places based on how democratic I feel they are without doing some research. okay fne I'll do a bit of research. Authoritarian regimes as defined by Economist democracy index, cf, official names of countries
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria
I've omitted ones that are just [Republic of Authoritarian Country] above: the bottom five for freedom in 2025 rankings are: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Myanmar, NK, Central African Republic, and Syrian Arab Republic
The longest official name is actually "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" but those aren't freedom words.
All things being equal, I think "Ireland" is a freedom word people worked hard for.
Oof, fair
Romania - haven't left, never planning to (unless the country collapses further than it did yesterday, but that's neither here nor there).
Hoping we get some Romanian ex-pats in the results, I can't be the only one, we're a nerdy bunch.
I'm not Romanian but one of my favorite people is! She's an exceptional pianist (like, has won competitions and taught at the college level) and an even better person. My life is better for having her in it.
Quick reminder for anyone still wanting to participate, the survey will close in less than 24 hours!
I don't see myself counted... are only currently existing countries counted?
Edit: Looking at the data, I see that it was normalized, though incorrectly as far as territory is concerned. I don't like this survey. You should have clarified that you were going to normalize the countries this way ahead of time. I do not feel like you represented my answer accurately at all.
My sincere apologies!
I'm very much learning as I go with these surveys and how to best handle the data and present the results in a good way, so some mistakes are expected. If you'd like me to make corrections I'm happy to do so, let me know here or via private message and I'll get right on it.
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and care, and I apologize about posting a complaint without a proposed solution.
Before posting, I considered for a while what to suggest, and could not think of anything useful, but I'll keep pondering it.
Personal guess - you're Ukrainian or Belarusian, born in the USSR but categorised under russia?
I only skimmed through the raw responses to the original question and, indeed, there are some edge cases from countries that no longer exist. "Czechoslovakia" also got categorised as Czechia, when it could also have been Slovakia.
Making a non-normalised version of the map would have been impossible for several reasons, but I think how we better could handle this in future surveys is e.g. "If this country no longer exists, please add its current country for the city you were born in" or something like that.
I can see such a problem happening again in the "languages" one if you normalise by country @Bauke. E.g., if I answer "Kashubian", it might erroneously be categorised as "(standard) Polish". If I answer "Aromanian", it mighr erroneously be categorised as "Romanian", etc.
I agree on future surveys needing more clarification on exactly the answers I'm looking for and planning on my end for how to turn the data into something presentable. I do appreciate you and ilyag bringing these things up because I wouldn't have known otherwise, the feedback is very useful!
Re: the languages survey, that one I won't normalize to countries and regions since indeed there's not a good way to do it as you mention and it also contains multiple languages per person so that'd be tricky to put on a map too.
I'm good at breaking things, feel free to subcontract me :P