<html><head></head><body><div><span title="foozler83@gmail.com">William Flynn Wallace</span><span class="detail"> <foozler83@gmail.com></span> , 20/5/2014 8:39 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntgmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148);">I know people think of 'steep' as difficult, but with learning curves it is not so. I dunno how this misconception got out there, but it's very difficult to get rid of, like the 'vaccines cause disease' one.</div><div class="mcntgmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148);">
<br>Please help get rid of this cliche'. I taught Learning for 35 years and this is driving me crazy! It's worse than the misconception of negative reinforcement as punishment.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Amen to that! When I wrote the original post I noted that I was using the term in the standard, wrong way. But I felt it was more important to get the main idea across than try to explain the issue. Maybe I was wrong about that. Saying "difficult learning curve" might be a decent substitution. </div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>