Thread: steep learning curve?

i always would tell new hires that even though i had a ton of experience in my profession, i thought there was a steep learning curve at my current place of employment. then i thought about that and it seems incorrect to phrase it like that. that means you learn a lot over a short period of time. a flat learning curve means expertise is acquired over a longer period of time, which is what i'm guessing people mean when they say learning this craft has a steep learning curve. otherwise there wouldn't be so much to talk about here. we'd all get our gear and away we'd go.

starts out pretty steep then it turns long so i guess you could say both

If you ride a push bike, a steep hill is difficult to climb

That hill gets easier with practice and some learned skills and tricks along the way.


Mick

One could think about it in various ways, but there is a standard usage:

A learning curve is a graphical representation of the changing rate of learning (in the average person) for a given activity or tool. Typically, the increase in retention of information is sharpest after the initial attempts, and then gradually evens out, meaning that less and less new information is retained after each repetition.

(From wikipedia.org)

the reason i say it's horizontal at first where i work is that there's so much information you have to absorb you don;t know where to begin., once it starts to click, then i would say the line goes more toward the vertical. there are exceptions...we had to decorate cakes with dreidls yesterday and i was not looking forward to piping solid fields of color into an outlined dreidl, mind you i've been doing this for a while and am fast, but not particularly creative in that i'd rather steal your idea, and then i thought to spread icing a a parchment paper and freeze it and then cut the dreidls out and slap them on the cake. worked perfectly. but for a minute i could feel that graph line going below the horizontal.