Poll Results – Gmail vs Yahoo by Gender

I recently purchase the Motorola Droid.  As part of that transition I needed to export my contacts from three different systems, including Yahoo, into Gmail’s contacts application.  Like most everyone else, I don’t like the idea of using multiple systems to manage contacts and email so I was considering also moving my email from Yahoo to Google.  Seems like a logical decision considering the Droid’s focus on Google Apps.  But changes repels me more than it should.

Final decision…wait until I had a little more info.  Instead, I asked my peers using LinkedIn’s poll application.  The question was simple, “do you prefer Yahoo, Gmail or another system for personal email use?”.  Overall, the preference toward Gmail was a little higher than I expected and validated my leaning toward a transition to Gmail.  However, the one thing that surprised me was how many more men preferred Gmail (70%) as compared to women (33%).  In fact, 1 in 3 women prefer Yahoo while 0 of the men polled preferred Yahoo.

I’m trying to draw any conclusions from the data.  The sample size was relatively small.  But I did think the gender difference in poll was enough to share.  In a few days I’ll just be another “men prefer Gmail” statistic.