Learning curves: Facts or artifacts?

"It is our purpose in this paper to show that the arbitrary choice of a cutoff point in the dichotomizing of continuous response distributions can impose significant constraints upon the shape of resulting learning curves, and that this can form the basis of misleading theoretical interpretatio...

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Published in:Psychological bulletin 1957-05, Vol.54 (3), p.256-268
Main Authors: Bahrick, Harry P, Fitts, Paul M, Briggs, George E
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