WSO Userbase Demographic Preview

Put up a short poll on a surveymonkey last week to try to get a better idea of where WSO users are concentrated in the US and the world. Think Andy might run an official poll on this in the coming weeks, but thought I'd share the small sample of answers I got. Was interesting to see 38.1% of the sample came from outside the main US and world finance hubs I had listed.

Results (City/ %/ # of responses)

Total responses: 42

Boston 2.4% 1
Charlotte 4.8% 2
Chicago 19.0% 8
Hong Kong 0.0% 0
Houston 2.4% 1
London 4.8% 2
Minneapolis 2.4% 1
New York City 23.8% 10
San Francisco 2.4% 1
Shanghai 0.0% 0
Singapore 0.0% 0
Tokyo 0.0% 0

Other/write-in 38.1% 16 (write-in entries below)

2 Los Angeles
2 Atlanta
Pune, India
Omaha
Stamford
Tampa
Washington, D.C.
Frankfurt
Philadelphia
Buenos Aires
Maine
Ann Arbor
Nontreal
New Zealand (Auckland next year)

Will be interesting to see the results with a larger sample.

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its hard 2 say "where i live" exactly. cause im always flyin around in my jet scoutin hip hop talent for my label by day, scoutin female talent by night. 1 minute im in bwenus ares, the next im in NOLA the next im in chi-town, then im down 2 Houstalantavegas. if i have to pick 1 single answer i guess id say im a citizen of the world

 
swagonits hard 2 say "where i live" exactly. cause im always flyin around in my jet scoutin hip hop talent for my label by day, scoutin female talent by night. 1 minute im in bwenus ares, the next im in NOLA the next im in chi-town, then im down 2 Houstalantavegas. if i have to pick 1 single answer i guess id say im a citizen of the world

Not bad.

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swagonits hard 2 say "where i live" exactly. cause im always flyin around in my jet scoutin hip hop talent for my label by day, scoutin female talent by night. 1 minute im in bwenus ares, the next im in NOLA the next im in chi-town, then im down 2 Houstalantavegas. if i have to pick 1 single answer i guess id say im a citizen of the world

Not bad.

Not bad? Seems to me like the student has become the teacher...

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