Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just asserting how something can make a difference withouth >>> arguing how in the particular case it actucally makes a >>> difference is just a divertion tactic without real merrit. >>> >> In the face of a notion that all steep curves determining >> "progress made in something" must be good I stand with my mouth >> agape. I am aware that common usage does not concur with >> academic rigor, but in this particular instance I'm with the >> common herd. > > Well that notion is entirely yours. My notion was only that > progres in productivity, earnings and learning was good and thus > that curves that are to be prefered tend to be the same shape for > those three subjects. >
If we are being pedantic about describing a curve that shows the progress of a person in learning a topic, there is no arguing with you, a steep curve describes fast uptake and is a good thing. If we are being pedantic about what a learning curve describes, it seems possible that it describes the rate of knowledge uptake required to master a given topic, and that such a learning curve could exclude people that were unable to take in knowledge at that rate(for whatever reason) from mastering that topic, making it reasonable to describe such a topic as both 'hard' and 'having a steep learning curve'. max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
