March 9th, 2010
What Does Your Email Provider Say About You?
You may have kept your AOL account since receiving a free disc in the 90’s, signed up for Yahoo! in college, got a Gmail invite, or moved to Comcast when you finally installed broadband, but what does it say about you? When categorized by email provider, the credit score and debt averages of users begins to tell a story. Do Gmail users take on larger mortgages? Do Yahoo! users have lower credit card limits? Credit Karma takes a closer look at how users of the most popular email providers stack up.
Disclaimer: Our analysis is for informational purposes. The data shows correlations for a number of reasons and is based on averages. As anyone who has taken a statistics class knows, causality and correlation are very different.
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a boat load of averages…
signifying little.
Data distribution curves for each user group might reveal more.
You are right. But if we gave all those distributions, it would be a data set and people wouldn’t read it.
A standard deviation of the figures wouldn’t kill us. Fun info, though (for gmail users).
We will at more stats on the next infographic. For those wondering, the sample size was well over 400K.
Doesn’t most of this just have to do with age? The younger users (gmail users) would have more student loan debt, lower credit card debt and credit card limit, and more mortgage debt.
Yes. There are many spurious relationships in the data. You have hit on one of the potentials. There are probably many more with geography, home ownership, etc.
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Data distribution curves for each user group might reveal more.