ABSTRACT
There is a strong likelihood that many of us may have used, or at least heard, casual expressions being bandied about relating to new experiences providing a steep Learning Curve, implying that there is a lot that has to be learnt in a short space of time. The main premise that supports the existence of a Learning Curve is that there must be some opportunity for knowledge or experience to be retained or passed on for the benefit of future repetitions of the task. Some purists would take great pains to point out to us that the term 'Learning Curves' only really relates to labour effort or time, and that cost reduction should be termed as Cost Improvement Curves. A Quantity-Based Learning Curve is an empirical relationship which reflects that the time, effort or cost to perform an activity reduces as the number of repetitions of that activity increases.
