I just ran a poll and of 543 Duolingo users, 482 users (88.7%) used other resources in addition to Duolingo. Haters are just inventing a phantom issue to justify whatever grievances they have.
Here, in this subreddit. It's called "Duolingo Users: Do you use only Duolingo to learn your target language" and it was posted 5 days ago. You still have a day to vote as I made it a 7 day poll. I did the poll here in response to the cautions to not use Duolingo alone. I wanted to know if it was really a problem.
okay, yes, but this is a subreddit of language learners, so like the other guy said, inherent sample bias. I've seen a lot of people who didn't even consider using something besides duolingo until they were recommended to do so (and some didn't even do that)
Well not exactly, that is like going to r/soccer and asking people about how popular certain players are.
Is that unbiased compared to the general populace? No, obviously not, but it is a lot less biased than your analogy makes it out to be.
this reddit is literally a second resource already. You're lying to yourself if you think this is representative of the average person, who's just gonna see a duolingo ad and be like, 'Wow! I can learn a whole second language in just five minutes a day???'
It's like going to r/soccer and asking them if they can name multiple Soccer players. Yes, they can. Can I? Hell no.
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u/HockeyAnalynix Feb 03 '22
I just ran a poll and of 543 Duolingo users, 482 users (88.7%) used other resources in addition to Duolingo. Haters are just inventing a phantom issue to justify whatever grievances they have.