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		scottio on Oct 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer? This poll was clearly designed to canvas United States cities, even if it wasn't explicitly stated. Is that narrow-minded? I don't think so. If I happened upon a poll on a Russian tech site that mentioned Omsk and Moscow and St. Petersburg, I'd assume it was a national poll. And then I'd move on. Perhaps it's narrow-minded to assume that a poll on a U.S.-based tech site should by default be global in scope?

zura on Oct 23, 2011 | [–]

Audience defines the scope of the site, not the country where it is hosted.

rmc on Oct 24, 2011 | [–]

a U.S.-based tech site

This is a US based tech site? News to me. I thought it was a global site.

DavidSJ on Oct 25, 2011 | [–]

"US-based" means located in the US.

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