Thursday
Mar252010
What Does Your Email Provider Say About You? [infographic]
Randy
From CreditKarma.com, apparently, the email provider you use can imply certain things about your personal financial position to the world.
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.
Found on FlowingData
Reader Comments (10)
not very meaningful, in terms of statistics. Are those "averages" the median or mean? What's the standard deviation? Doesn't seem to be a whole lot of difference, especially on the Credit Scores and "percent of on time payments."
I hate all the predictions and stats about users- what's it really matter to most people anyway!?
I think it's great how do we get our hands on statistics like this
Since CreditKarma based this on their own user data, they have a unique set of data not available to everyone.
Why is this a problem? Because it skews the viewer's perception of magnitude.
The purpose of an infographic is to display data--often large and/or complex sets of data--so that one may grasp them as a whole, and detect patterns and/or meaning in them. For an infographic to be effective, first and foremost, the data need to be faithfully represented.
The graphic needs to be redesigned, before one can use it as a tool for interpreting the data.