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> Most people do not get 10 emails/day on average.

I'd like to see the stats, but I seem to average around > 40 emails a day, (most are unactionable) but always considered my email load quite light. For people like my wife who do much of their work communication over email, it appears to be much higher.



Ran some stats on my mails of the last 4 years, here are the daily characteristics:

N = 24k Min = 1 Max = 211 Median = 11 Avg = 16.023907 Stddev = 18.312062

A lot of them are actually chat messages through DeltaChat so not representative of usual mail activity. When I remove them I get this:

N = 16k Min = 1 Max = 56 Median = 10 Avg = 11.378933 Stddev = 8.1572529


Sorry, I had meant by "stats" anything about the average among users, since I suspect that you might actually be an outlier on the lower-end among people who work professionally in or with technology.




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