Author Topic: Let's Get This Learning Curve Thing Correct!!!  (Read 150 times)

dawg

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Let's Get This Learning Curve Thing Correct!!!
« on: October 19, 1999, 06:47:00 AM »
OK guys, it's a "learning curve" not a "learning hill". So far everytime someone has commented on the learning curve it has been described as steep. That would be correct if it were a "learning hill" because a steep hill is hard to climb, it's slow going, it takes alot of work, etc., just to make a little progress.
 BUT IT'S NOT A HILL IT'S A CURVE: you know, like rise over run, like slope, like time invested on x-axis and improvement on y-axis. So alot of practice (time, x-axis) produces steady but modest improvement (a little rise on y-axis) and that describes a SHALLOW LEARNING CURVE.

splat

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Let's Get This Learning Curve Thing Correct!!!
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 1999, 08:12:00 AM »
Is this not a little off topic?
Anyways, normally you plot
effort vs time, so
a steep curve indicates a more
difficult task.
Historically this was done because
fitting an effort plot was significantly
easier than fitting an improvement
plot.  


dawg

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Let's Get This Learning Curve Thing Correct!!!
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 1999, 09:07:00 AM »
he...he...he...

I was wondering who would get it.

OK, I'll reel my bait back in now