The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) attempts to rank countries by the equity of English language skills amongst those adults who took the EF test. It is the product of EF Education First, an international education company, and draws its conclusions from data collected via English tests available for free over the internet. The index is an online survey first published in 2011based on test data from 1.7 million test takers. The most recent edition was released in November 2023.

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So the data is not representative for the entire population of a country.

Malta has a population of ~ 500000, i.e. a working-age population of ~ 300000.

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Let’s hope, that finally some authoity has the guts to file a complaint.

Nobody. Their former voters will magically start voting (again) for the CDU once the AfD is forbidden.

That’s not about free speech (we don’t have that in the US American understanding), but about whether the party is acting against the liberal democratic basic order.

The Ubuntu font family is the first that comes into my mind.

One reason is probably that the power in PS is a 36 % larger number than in kW.

Yes, Stärke means strength (could also mean starch, but not in this case), Stärken here is (Dative case) plural.

How are cars advertised in Portugal? In Germany, Pferdestärken (PS) is commonly used.

You’re right, yet there are two definitions of the horse power, the imperial 1 hp ≈ 745.7 W and the metric 1 hp = 735.49875 W. The latter is usually given in its local name, e.g. as PS, cv, … etc., while the imperial is usually hp independent of the language of the document.

As you said, in Europe, quantifying the power of a machine (e.g. a car) in horse powers is supplementary only and thus, does not suffice on its own, the data must always be given in kW.

Definitely. But fortunately, everything here has the dimension length to the power of something.

I’m fine with imperial units, as long as somebody stays in one unit system and doesn’t mix miles, yards, feet and inches, or square miles and acres, etc.

As @huquad@lemmy.ml pointed out, @LodeMike@lemmy.today had an error in their calculation (radius squared instead of cubed). Their corrected result, 1.7 mi also equals 2.7 km (rounding to 3 km is a bit rough).

No, there are about 1.4 billion cubic kilometres of water on earth (V_w ≈ 1.4·10⁹ km³). Earth’s diameter is D_E ≈ 12750 km. The volume of the relatively thin shell of water is approximately V_w ≈ π(D_E)² t. Inserting yields t ≈ V_w/(π(D_E)²) = 1.4·10⁹ km³/(π (12750 km)²) ≈ 2.74 km.

As a German, you often don’t find Deutschland in a list behind Danmark, but between other countries starting with G.

The list would be extra fun in a foreign language but keeping the English order.

They’ll ban permission of new ICE vehicles that run with fossil fuels, yet ICEs using e-fuels exclusively are a viable, but costly, option.

I just want to add that due to the above territorial definition of EBU, Australia is no member of EBU, but associated. As such, they don’t have the formal right to take part at the ESC, but are invited by the EBU to contribute.

For the “rest of the world” vote, for the others, it’s per telephone number.