Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Fri Jul 15 10:47:21 EDT 2016


Op 15-07-16 om 15:38 schreef Jussi Piitulainen:
> Antoon Pardon writes:
>
>> No, that is what people come up with afterwards. If you just start a
>> conversation about how people learn and how long it would take to get
>> some mastery and how we could present progress in a graph, virtually
>> everyone uses the conventional axes layout. This talk about swapped
>> axes only come from people who used the steep learning curve metaphor,
>> when you then try to show them what an actual steep learning curve
>> implies.
> Or from people who try to be charitable when other people use it. At
> least I like to think that that's what I did.

Sure, you can be charitable when other people use it. IME that doesn't
contradict that when you somehow find yourself in need of actually
graphing these kind of numbers you are likely to follow the conventional
layout.

-- 
Antoon Pardon.




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