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https://www.stevanpopovic.com/static/e1db44c18f06c967873e3d45dae97964/dc93e/arcs_of_seniority.jpg https://www.stevanpopovic.com/static/e1db44c18f06c967873e3d4..

https://www.stevanpopovic.com/static/e1db44c18f06c967873e3d45dae97964/dc93e/arcs_of_seniority.jpg https://www.stevanpopovic.com/static/e1db44c18f06c967873e3d4... The first chart is difficult to understand because it flips the curve to preserve the parallelism between "less" and "more"... which the last chart forgoes anyway. Also: why an "arc" as opposed to another kind of curve?

Benjammer 7y ago
Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all. Here's my shot-in-the-dark, random attempt to line up the curves more to my intuitions and make them kind of work in relation to each other: https://sketch.io/render/sk-6839906b1c270084fb96acb3fdae4249.jpeg https://sketch.io/render/sk-6839906b1c270084fb96acb3fdae4249...
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all. Since there's no quantification defined for either “seniority” or the things measures against it, the shape of the curves is meaningless, anyway.
cush 7y ago
The arcs seem to make a lot of sense actually, if you consider the law of diminishing returns. One would approach peak X as you become more senior, but you would accelerate toward peak X more quickly at first, since you're new and learning. The difference between knowing your first thing and the 2nd is 100%, while you're 101th thing learned only nets you a 1% gain. Also this 20 person survey is hardly scientific, so you could probably come up with lots of interesting, alternative ways to display the data. I'm sure there were some compromises made to stay readable and concise.
- Benjammer 7y ago
  >One would approach peak X as you become more senior, but you would accelerate toward peak X more quickly at first But the curves are basically the opposite of this. They show less horizontal movement at the junior level than the senior level. The "peak X" you are looking at is not what it appears, you are seeing a "peak seniority" level on each graph and the "skill gain" or whatever is accelerating towards infinity as you approach the most senior person (which you can never reach...?)
  - cush 7y ago
    Ah true. Got it backwards. Graphs should be concave. In any case, can one ever reach perfection?

Benjammer 7y ago

Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all. Here's my shot-in-the-dark, random attempt to line up the curves more to my intuitions and make them kind of work in relation to each other: https://sketch.io/render/sk-6839906b1c270084fb96acb3fdae4249.jpeg https://sketch.io/render/sk-6839906b1c270084fb96acb3fdae4249...

dragonwriter 7y ago
> Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all. Since there's no quantification defined for either “seniority” or the things measures against it, the shape of the curves is meaningless, anyway.

cush 7y ago

The arcs seem to make a lot of sense actually, if you consider the law of diminishing returns. One would approach peak X as you become more senior, but you would accelerate toward peak X more quickly at first, since you're new and learning. The difference between knowing your first thing and the 2nd is 100%, while you're 101th thing learned only nets you a 1% gain. Also this 20 person survey is hardly scientific, so you could probably come up with lots of interesting, alternative ways to display the data. I'm sure there were some compromises made to stay readable and concise.

Benjammer 7y ago
>One would approach peak X as you become more senior, but you would accelerate toward peak X more quickly at first But the curves are basically the opposite of this. They show less horizontal movement at the junior level than the senior level. The "peak X" you are looking at is not what it appears, you are seeing a "peak seniority" level on each graph and the "skill gain" or whatever is accelerating towards infinity as you approach the most senior person (which you can never reach...?)
- cush 7y ago
  Ah true. Got it backwards. Graphs should be concave. In any case, can one ever reach perfection?