 TITLE: Consumers in Top Credit Ranges Have Highest Debt CONTENT: Most Consumers Believe High Debt Equals Low Credit Scores\n---------------------------------------------------------\nOverwhelmingly, survey respondents—80%—said they believe that having high debt would hurt credit scores.\nSimilarly, they thought people with top credit scores would carry less debt than people with lower scores: 51% believed people with a score between 740 and 850 would have less debt than people with scores at the lower end of the scoring scale (300 to 670). Just 29% thought people with higher scores would have more debt. END