I think it’s a bit dumber to use a government work email address than a university email address.
http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ashley-madison-20150822-story.html
NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!
That’s why the former Sec’y of State and the present Ambassador to Japan have been using private email addresses for gov’t business-- wink…wink…
Not everyone with a .edu account works there.
Gosh, I hate to see Harvard outperform Yale in anything.
So what does this all mean when nearly all of the Ashley Madison “members” are men?
Does this mean that married men are more likely to cheat with strangers than married women will?
I dunno! That is possible. Or it could mean that men are more gullible and fall for online scams… like this Ashley Madison thing more readily than women. Or they have more time on their hands to kill it on crappy sites while women flock to quality stuff like CC. 
@mom2collegekids , don’t think many people needed the Ashley Madison data to come to that conclusion.
The data itself is suspect, I was reading that those doing the hack might be mixing genuine data with stuff they hacked elsewhere to make it look legitimate. Among other things, because Ashley Madison didn’t validate e-mail addresses, someone could put one in thinking it was a joke or as revenge or something.
The other thing is how many of those e-mail addresses were people establishing an account simply to check out the site out of curiousity? The key thing to remember is that unless someone pays, those accounts are useless, and from what I can tell most of those accounts didnt have credit card numbers. Claiming 30 something million accounts is a scam, how many paying customers did they have? It sounds like the whole site was pretty much a fraud, with so many men and so few women, other than men looking to hook up with each other, sounds like they created a false image of what it was.
Per article linked by Lergnom, AM apparently was charging folks a fee to delete their accounts… That’s a clever business model! Except the “deleted” accounts still had enought identifying info left…
The analysis in that article also points to the fact that not all 30M accounts were fake… The scam was that they advertised that they had many more women users than they actually did. I recommend reading the article. There will be some B-school paper written about that scam…
Perhaps it shows that men aren’t very good at distinguishing real women from fake ones over the computer. If we ever get close to strong AI, it should be women doing the Turing testing…
http://nypost.com/2015/08/28/ashley-madison-ceo-steps-down-in-wake-of-hack/
Ashley Madison CEO steps down.
<<< Ashley Madison CEO steps down. <<<<
before he’s drawn and quartered.
Tarred and feathered!!!
MIT has over 11000 students vs. 2000 at Cal Tech.
Cornell also has over 13000 students vs 4-6000 at other schools.
@oldfort, you seem to be pulling the total students number for MIT and Caltech and undergrad number for Cornell and other elite privates.
And not counting faculty and staff, who have a higher percentage of married.
I know what I was pulling. If Cornell has 3 or 4 times more students than other similar schools then they must have proportionally more graduates (married) and more staff/faculty. Same for MIT.
@oldfort , but other people may not know and you didn’t make that clear.
And your assumption is wrong. For example, Harvard has 4670 academic staff and 14500 grad students to Cornell’s 2900 academic staff and 8000 grad students.
I was just looking at UG students, not graduate students. “Graduates” in my my previous post is referring to undergraduate students who have graduated, not graduate students.
If you just look at number of UG students at each of those schools, it is not surprising one school’s email address may show up more often than other schools, but of course there maybe other factors. It is just sensationalism/wrong to rank by number of school emails.
@oldfort, OK, but looking at only undergrad numbers makes no sense when grad students (and alums) as well as faculty and staff would also have school email addresses.
Of course it is not 100% correct to just look at number of UGs, but it is also a silly write-up in trying to draw any conclusion from just looking at number of emails from each school.