On 2007-04-20, Max Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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'.
I must confess I don't follow you here. A rate is a single number. Now some second variable can be a function of this rate or vice versa but I can't make out what this second variable is supposed to be from your explanation. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
