To: All
Please forgive my conceit, but this always bugs me. A steep learning curve means something is easily learned. Time is conventionally graphed on the horizontal axis. If a great amount is learned in a short time, the line goes up steeply. If not much is learned over time, the slope is gradual. Please don't perpetuate (except by quoting the uninformed), this common misconception.
2,447 posted on
04/05/2003 7:21:46 AM PST by
Socratic
(A little questioning couldn't hurt.)
To: Socratic
Here comes that surreal parade again!
2,451 posted on
04/05/2003 7:23:12 AM PST by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Socratic
A steep learning curve means something is easily learned. Time is conventionally graphed on the horizontal axis. If a great amount is learned in a short time, the line goes up steeply. If not much is learned over time, the slope is gradual.Ah, but if one plots learning requirements, not volume learned, as a function of time and there is a great deal to learn very fast, then that would be a steep slope.
2,571 posted on
04/05/2003 7:51:41 AM PST by
Chemist_Geek
("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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