7 Time-based Learning Curves
Another, albeit lesser used form of Learning Curve is the group referred to as time-based Learning Curves.
Definition 7.1 Time-Based Learning Curve
A Time-Based Learning Curve is an empirical relationship which reflects that the time, effort or cost to produce an output from an activity decreases as the elapsed time since commencement of that activity increases.
A word (or two) from the wise?
'Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time.'
William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona c. 1589-93
As a direct consequence of learning, the yield or output performance of an activity increases (sometimes to a limit) as the time elapsed increases. What the definition doesn’t tell us is ...
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