Email Domains and You

According to email data research during which hundreds of thousands of email users were surveyed, correlations were found between defined types of people and specific email service providers.

For example, it found AOL and Yahoo! users are most likely to be "overweight women" who "haven't travelled outside their own country".

Hotmail is relegated to pessimists in the suburbs, while Gmail is the hipster of the bunch with users who are most likely to be "thin young men" aged from 18 to 34, with a college education.

The general breakdown of the analysis of users and their providers is as follows.

Yahoo! - chubby, young females,

AOL - chubby, older women,

Gmail - slim, young men, and

Hotmail - average, young females.

The report and conclusions are decidedly arguable. In fact, even the researchers don't guarantee the accuracy of their assertions.