On 2007-04-20, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So if you have the choice between a steep or a shalow income curve >> you will prefer the shalow curve because a steep curve makes you >> think about verticale clifs and such? >> >> The analogy with a walk is just silly because curves are not like walks. >> Nobody will say something like: I won't invest in that company because >> it has a steep profit curve or the reverse: I'll invest in this company >> because it has an easy looking downhill going profit curve. > > Your whole argumentation bases on the fact that the result of the > learning process, and the success of it, has something to do with the > reached height - or y-axis-value - of your climb. > > Which is nonsense. The goal is to go from A - ignorance - to B - > knowledge - which both lie on the X-Axis.
Well if you want to do it that way, nobody can stop you, but people in the habit of processing numbers usually put the time on the X-axis like in time spend learning or exercising and put the other value on the Y-axis. That is because people prefer a curve going up and down while moving to the right instead of going left and right while moving up. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list