I read the post in its entirety, twice. Without further analysis of the numbers, my guess is that because @osm0sis and @xervantes are noobs (in relation to the majority in this chart), they may spend more time in curration as a percentage of time on Steemit. Just a summation on my part.
Actually most of my time goes into creating content and only a small fraction on curation. My curation focus however is not on high paying posts of well-known authors but on authors who have great content but have not gotten that status yet. The payouts on the posts are less but the rewards higher.
I am learning that, albeit slowly! lol
Yes this is the trick. It seems better to be in on a post going from 0.1$ to 5$ than one at 30$ going to $100.
No maths included here!
Yes you could well be right. I sit with @osm0sis who does read a lot of articles and curate manually. @xervantes has replied with his thoughts which may be of interest too.
Thanks for your comments!