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I can't vote, so I can't see it. Can you make it visible? Thanks!

Dec was a very good month for me more than 50% up compared with Nov.

The only conclusion you can get with such a poll is that you spend too much time on the forums...

the results can't really be interpretted, for several reasons --

first, the usual problem with most polls here , where the poll ends up comparing large & small portfolios - so the $10 to $15 portfolio gains 50% while the $1000 to $1100 port is 'only' 10% - but which would you prefer?

thus the previous statement

>>>>Shutterstock- 40 contributors all independent
>>>> Average for independents--- up from November 3%

is completely invalid - you can take an arithmetic average of poll % like that - you would need the original data of actual slaes for each month



second, the results depend on when the question was asked - for many of us, sales do not follow a line, but instead ripsaw violently, so you need a running average over several months.  eg, my dec over nov ss sales were +50% but my nov over oct saes were MINUS 40%, so reporting only the dec/nov is extremely misleading

third, EL and other high paying sales are not smooth curves for most of us, so  1 or 2 EL can distort an entire month.

the result is that these polls have little value statistically

A disproportionate number of people here are old-timers with large portfolios and we know that iStock has recently been punishing old-timers with large portfolios while relative newcomers have beeing doing better, so that will skew the survey against iStock.

Really, these polls say nothing that is meaningful. Istock's own monthly report thread is a better source of data.