The company only gives proportions of people within set earnings brackets, and the average earnings within each bracket. In order to estimate the raw data I modelled each earnings bracket as an exponential random variable with rate 1/groupmean (which gives expected value groupmean, and estimates the exponential decay present in the data).
Edit: I only included the data of the ≈ 5% of Isagenix associates who the company considers to be "builders" (working to expand their business). ≈11% made a little bit of money, but not enough for the company to consider them as real salespeople. The rest are just users of the products without trying to sell.
Visualizations using ggplot in R.
Edit2: a couple people in the comments have brought up that this is pre-expense earnings, so when costs are factored in most if these people will be in the negatives
Edit3: I hate when people do this, but my second ever post on Reddit made it to the front page! My high school bully would never believe that I got so popular by doing math
![image showing Today an acquaintance tried to recruit me into his MLM, so I dug into the companies data to show why that would be a terrible idea [OC].](9eaf8107-9742-5ccf-90bf-ee7954c21ecb.jpg)
A_Regular_Old_Human on February 25th, 2021 at 00:53 UTC »
Source : https://cdn.isagenix.com/fos/9/2/2/%7B922EBDCC-3B27-4E56-AD89-C56B17E545D5%7D.pdf
The company only gives proportions of people within set earnings brackets, and the average earnings within each bracket. In order to estimate the raw data I modelled each earnings bracket as an exponential random variable with rate 1/groupmean (which gives expected value groupmean, and estimates the exponential decay present in the data).
Edit: I only included the data of the ≈ 5% of Isagenix associates who the company considers to be "builders" (working to expand their business). ≈11% made a little bit of money, but not enough for the company to consider them as real salespeople. The rest are just users of the products without trying to sell.
Visualizations using ggplot in R.
Edit2: a couple people in the comments have brought up that this is pre-expense earnings, so when costs are factored in most if these people will be in the negatives
Edit3: I hate when people do this, but my second ever post on Reddit made it to the front page! My high school bully would never believe that I got so popular by doing math
pennylanebarbershop on February 25th, 2021 at 01:03 UTC »
So you could expect to make about $1000/yr. while likely shelling out >$2000. Sounds like a good deal.
caravaggihoe on February 25th, 2021 at 01:49 UTC »
Hope you don’t mind me dropping a link to r/antiMLM if people want more info on why MLMs are scams that set you up to fail