Hmmm. Interesting insight, but this chart is deceptive. By beginning the scale at 635 instead of 300 (which is the lowest possible credit score) it gives a disproportionate visual weight to the higher scores. In other words, this chart gives the GMail bar 8X more area than Yahoo. In reality, it is only 6% higher by absolute value (and 12% higher after factoring out the 300 minimum) -- still probably significant, but the graph makes you think it's an order of magnitude more. Just sayin.
jrafique
· 1 month ago
This is very interesting. Age is certainly the factor here. Young people have got more gmail account than the older one. Now everyone have it but old yahoo users may not be migrating to the gmail.
Christopher Daggett
· 1 month ago
this is why i refuse to date girls with a yahoo email address. this study needs to be redone, but for cell phone carriers. i always feel a little sketched out by those sprint-simply-everything-plan girls.
Name
· 1 month ago
wth? simply everything is like any other contract & they do a credit check. you should probably be sketched out if your provider can't offer unlimited sms, data, gps nav, and out of network mobile to mobile at a comparable rate.
//got an everything plan 2 years ago so I could call my honey without burning minutes and Sprint > AT&T imho.
lagspike
· 1 month ago
it's always the ones we've never heard of that are 'the best'.
Mike Murray
· 1 month ago
The reason those are higher is because, in most likelihood, you have to order the service (ie, Comcast or BellSouth ISP) to get the email address, which occassionally have credit checks associated with them. In other words, if you have horrible credit and never pay your bills, Comcast won't give you service.
Andrew Eastgate
· 1 month ago
Probably age is the main factor here. But I think you'd have to be smarter to use GMail!
ConnorJack
· 1 month ago
Gmail is much more sophisticated than MSN/Hotmail
warealtor
· 1 month ago
No assuption needed to be made. As you know, no one can collect nor access to other people's credit record unless the account holder personally releases their authorization.
tweetme
· 1 month ago
Gmail is for people who dont like clean email dashbaords
Nate
· 1 month ago
Yahoo Mail is for people who like to wait 5 minutes while 20 ajax requests execute to load the inbox. Also, as a gmail user I very very rarely use the web UI. At home and at work I use thunderbird + imap, on my iPhone it's the mail app (again, imap).
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Christopher Daggett
· 1 month ago
WallMountedHDD
· 1 month ago
I use comcast, gmail and yahoo. But I use yahoo the most. And I have an excellent score for a guy my age. Hell, it's damn good for an american period.
GodMode
· 1 month ago
Gmail is pretty cool email. But I had no idea that yahoo had fallen that far behind. oops... :)
Jayne85
· 1 month ago
That's intersting, wonder how they do that
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· 1 month ago
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Nannidale
· 1 month ago
How did they get the credit scores? Sometimes the internet makes me very, very nervous...
Adam
· 1 month ago
They get the credit scores from users of CreditKarma. Meaning, if you haven' signed up, then they can't get your score. Also, when you sign up, CreditKarma obviously obtains your email address and that's how they can group scores by email clients. For example, I use CreditKarma and my score is in the 86th percentile for Gmail users.
Joe
· 1 month ago
Duh this is nothing new...
Taken from Wikipedia "Technology adoption lifecycle,"
" * innovators - had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-oriented * early adopters - younger, more educated, tended to be community leaders * early majority - more conservative but open to new ideas, active in community and influence to neighbours * late majority - older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active * laggards - very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated"
Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL and the others all fall under the late majority and laggards category! Those people will get onto Gmail in a few years while the innovators and early adopters have moved onto something better!
cheers
Jan Ole Peek
· 1 month ago
Too bad that having a gmail account doesn't positively affect my credit score :(
kinlane
· 1 month ago
Does everyone feel better now that everyone is further put in there little boxes. Hopefully your in a box that your comfortable with, and some day it doesn't grow to trap you.
Name
· 1 month ago
Can you poke some holes in my box so I can breathe?
Tony
· 1 month ago
I use both....
Vasil Azarov
· 1 month ago
I don't see how the research presented above can be useful. It is obvious that Yahoo and Gmail are competing for the most high-tech, sophisticated and user-friendly interface. In fact, I believe that Yahoo Mail did a great job in catching up as their team has recently introduced a few great applications such as personal organizer etc. The other e-mail providers are not even close. Guy Kawasaki once blogged about how bad it is to leave your Hotmail/AOL e-mail addresses when applying for a job.
I don't think that WHY is the most important question here, but HOW the results of this research can be used?
Giles
· 1 month ago
quite frankly this sounds like one of the dumbest studies I have seen. really, what is the point? Oh, I am sure that someone somewhere believes that it's important to come up with statistics like this, but really to what end? Fostering E-mail Envy?
get a clue people....
james
· 1 month ago
uh, you could run a simple regression analysis with the mentioned data points in your post (age, IM presence, whatever) and find out exactly what's driving the scores.
ryanve
· 1 month ago
Bellsouth and Comcast emails probably have a higher percentage of people who are older and own homes, thus increasing their credit scores. Yahoo is for yahoos, but many people might just have Yahoo ID's to use services like Flickr. I wonder if the data only represents relatively active accounts, because many people have multiple emails. Depending on how adaptive to change or how sentimental they are, people might still the keep older services like AOL. My guess is that on average, smarter, more adaptive people probably tend to prefer Gmail—I don't think intelligence necessarily correlates to credit score but might it have some effect?
FANGO ONO
· 1 month ago
i use gmail & yahoo mail both.
spodzone
· 1 month ago
What about addresses in ISP-independent domains?
buycheapdedicatedhosting
· 1 month ago
It is said the google users are more Internet savvy, hence paid more internet-based purchases. But I'm surprise at Yahoo users.
jessefriedman
· 1 month ago
So essentially all those commercials we hear on the radio for companies that can help you out of credit card debt and IRS debt should be advertising on Yahoo more than Google.
Aaron Dean
· 1 month ago
I think it's a correlation =/= causation.
WB8ERJ
· 1 month ago
What if you have BOTH a yahoo and a gmail account? ;)
xxteemo
· 1 month ago
Wow that is just truly amazing dude! Who would have thunk it.
Probably age is the main factor here. But I think you'd have to be smarter to use GMail!
Name
· 1 month ago
The far ends of the scale are only 60 points apart. Totally misleading.
Mandy Corvo
· 1 month ago
Geez your personal info is not safe anywhere nowadays...
Boxxman
· 1 month ago
Interesting, but not scientific. I have good credit, but use creditkarma.com from my hotmail account, which is used for all accounts that usually generate marketing/annoying emails. My primary account is gmail, but it wouldn't show up as such to creditkarma.com
red herring
· 1 month ago
All these folks congratulating themselves on being "smarter" for using gmail shows laughable hubris, not intelligence. If you think you are smart because you are using gmail, think again.
Name
· 1 month ago
The idea that AOL accounts could skew younger can immediately be thrown out the window. If anything, AOL accounts skew OLDER. Those who are not technophobic already have better. AOL e-mail is particularly bad, with bizarre "features" like automatically deleting e-mail you view if you don't explicitly tell it to keep it, and AOL loves to have their crapware installed on every system.
Bellsouth probably also skews much older as it is cheap DSL rather than cable, but less stupid than AOL. Comcast I would not expect to be so high. That one surprises me.
I think in that case, the scores are lower because the user base skews towards the stupid.
Name
· 1 month ago
http://www.RemoveMyCreditInquiries.org is a site I found that is ran by a non-profit that can remove credit report inquiries for $15. They also appear to remove late comments as well.
vix
· 1 month ago
They're too scared to include Apple's me.com Guaranteed they'd be the highest.
Name
· 1 month ago
Strange... My credit score is 810 and I have been using Hotmail.com for the past 10 years...
Slovidicus Sunchre
· 1 month ago
It could be that Yahoo has designed its web services to cater to the lowest common denominator (intellectually speaking), and that those who subscribe to the service have low credit ratings as a result of not being gifted with a higher intelligence. Is Yahoo targeted at yahoo's, perhaps?
sms scrape
· 1 month ago
Gmail is best service. now every one is coming on Gmail. becouse lot off option in Gmail, searching email Essy attachment and much more.... Gmail is 3rd rank....i hope its going on top its take some time but in my opinion Gmail is superb. thanks for information and up to date us mr Pete Cashmore. carry on good job.
Frank
· 1 month ago
As you know, We all need the email address. But I think age is the main facor. So I think gmail is a good chosen to the young pepole.
Kanon
· 1 month ago
If you don't signed up how can they get your credit scores? So we don't need to be very nervous. In fact where is the safe place of personal information today?
fatherofyoursiblings
· 1 month ago
What an interesting (and laughable) study. Let the sheeple believe they use gmail because they're smarter while Skynet builds their databases. I use both the highest (gmail) and the lowest (yahoo) as well a personal email at a domain I created. OhnOez!!!!111
I think I'm going to use my yahoo account to post this message so I don't have to worry about the spam I'm going to receive following the submission. I wonder if anyone else has this thought process? O_o
Michael
· 1 month ago
As a Yahoo email user I don't want to pay much time for thinking about it. I don't want to provide any my credit scores to AOL.
Dick
· 1 month ago
I use yahoo email. Because it give me a user-friendly interface. In fact, I feel anyone email I had chosen was not important to me.
Robert
· 1 month ago
What about those folks with a personal domain? i.e. jon@doe.com
Henry
· 1 month ago
yes, it is the truth yahoo did not do a good job at its mail thanks for the sharing
Credit Card Finder
· 4 weeks ago
Wow, this is a brilliant graph - very interesting data! Perhaps Gmail users are a bit savvier and smarter than most with their money? ;)
All Comments
//got an everything plan 2 years ago so I could call my honey without burning minutes and Sprint > AT&T imho.
Taken from Wikipedia "Technology adoption lifecycle,"
" * innovators - had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-oriented
* early adopters - younger, more educated, tended to be community leaders
* early majority - more conservative but open to new ideas, active in community and influence to neighbours
* late majority - older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active
* laggards - very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated"
Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL and the others all fall under the late majority and laggards category! Those people will get onto Gmail in a few years while the innovators and early adopters have moved onto something better!
cheers
I don't think that WHY is the most important question here, but HOW the results of this research can be used?
get a clue people....
RT
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Bellsouth probably also skews much older as it is cheap DSL rather than cable, but less stupid than AOL. Comcast I would not expect to be so high. That one surprises me.
I think in that case, the scores are lower because the user base skews towards the stupid.
Guaranteed they'd be the highest.
My credit score is 810 and I have been using Hotmail.com for the past 10 years...
I think I'm going to use my yahoo account to post this message so I don't have to worry about the spam I'm going to receive following the submission. I wonder if anyone else has this thought process? O_o
yahoo did not do a good job at its mail
thanks for the sharing