yes, even today, my unexchanged plus exchanged(i've been over at middlecoin til yesterday around payout time) is greater than what i'd get mining straight ltc to exchange to btc. granted it isn't by a huge margin, but it's slightly better at the moment with several hours left to go. and that would be if i was mining LTC at 100% PPS.
middlecoin had a crazy payout, check their thread. that isn't an apt comparison for that reason
whats your point, you're the one who was talking sampling methods. So you are saying that the conditions existing today 12/21/2013 on hashcows=the conditions of that date on middlecoin? Why don't you try comparing the payouts of hashcows the last few days and middlecoins. But you won't do that, just like you won't read Middlecoins thread. Several users there within the last day or so have mentioned that they're expecting normal payouts that are much lower than what they've had the past few days. Just as the high payouts were noted as unusually good when they first occurred.
Middlecoin was having unusually high payouts because they switched to DOGE before everyone else. if you compare the period where hashcows mine Sexcoin while nobody else was you'd see a similar result. DOGE isn't uber profitable anymore, and Middlecoin mines LTC sometimes when the other alts fall, whereas here we have SBC, Anoncoin, FST and several others that multipool and middlecoin don't hit.