Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning Curves

5 Equivalent Unit Learning

Until now, except for a few veiled references such as Anderlohr Retrograde Units (Anderlohr, 1969) and Stanford-B Learning Curves, we have only been looking at Learning Curves in the context of integer units. In this section we are going to break that paradigm.

5.1 The problems with traditional Unit Learning Curves

In the last chapter we observed that some organisations prefer to use Unit Learning Curves in preference to Cumulative Average Learning Curves because they are more responsive to changes in the rates of learning. However, there is a downside to traditional Unit Learning Curves (i.e. those based on completed units) in that they can be too sensitive to changes, especially those of a random nature. At low production ...