* Jack Bertram <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [03-11-2003 16:37]: > Whether or not there is an official psychological definition, two points > apply here: > > - Firstly, and to your point, given that everyone "knows" that a steep > learning curve is a hard one, people won't know what you're talking > about if you refer to a shallow learning curve > > - Secondly, the reason people talk about a learning curve in the first > place is because they view it in two other dimensions: progress and > effort. A hill is a one-dimensional reduction of these two dimensions, > where moving the same distance (as the crow files) takes more effort > when the hill is steep. In the everyday context, the psychological > definition is so much irrelevance. Right, and this is all explained in the article I referred to. The article sort of predicts these discussions. But shall we stop them for now? -- René Clerc - (rene@xxxxxxxx) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7 This is not a spam. You receive this message because you are on a list of email addresses I have bought.
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