Power of the Paretto Principle for Steemians

The Pareto principle, also known as the law of the vital few, is an illustration of a "power law" relationship. It looks as a straight line on logarithmic scale. It states that, for many events, most effects come from only few causes.

To check if this principle is suitable for STEEM network, I collected all parent posts written till yesterday midnight. Then I summarized all posts values in SD for every single author. And then splitted total post earning in 10% intervals, counting the number of authors in each interval.

It was a total of 9157 steemians in result. Here is users/earning diagram and row table data for analysis:

As you can see, 90% of total posts value is earned by only 6% of Steem authors.

What does it mean for an average user?

Here in Steem we are dealing not with 80/20 rule but ever stronger 90/6 proportion. That mean all of Pareto's conclusions are taken into effect. For example, one may expect that:

• Much of your posts will not produce any earning
• What you see is not always true - there are always hidden factors in STEEM network
• What you expect to receive as a result tend to be different from what you get (there are always hidden forces here)
• Most successful content gets value due to the action of a small number of high-power factors

Conclusion: You can't predict what factors will work - just try until you get a positive effect and then follow that way as long as the idea does not cease to work.

I will check the current 90/6 proportion a month later, but absolutely sure it will be the same. There are no any evidence to move this ratio to 90/10 or better.