Reasons to Gloat If Your Credit Score Is High

 

November 29, 2013

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Reasons to Gloat If Your Credit Score Is High

Research Finding : 

People with higher credit scores tend to be less impulsive, better at delaying rewards, and more trustworthy than those with lower scores ! 

The study included a survey and a set of tasks and games. 

Thus “it is not too much of a stretch” to say that credit scores might be a useful tool for screening job candidates or potential partners on a dating web site, the Researchers say . 

 Fair Isaac credit scores are calculated on a scale from 300 to 850, with the USA average being 680. 

In general, a good credit score is anything above 700. 

Check your own . 

Research Courtesy :   a study of 63 university students and employees by Shweta Arya, Catherine Eckel, and Colin Wichman of the University of Texas at Dallas; 

SOURCE: Anatomy of the credit score