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What is a Learning Curve? A learning curve is a graph that shows that the more a person learns about something or experiences it, the better they’ll get at it. This applies to purchases in the economy because consumers, ideally, become smarter with their money and make more informed choices.

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And finance Allah shmoop What is a learning curve Oh

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all right It's literally a graph that is well curve

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shaped like this and it reflects progress made in what's

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it called Oh yeah learning For example it's about the

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learning of a little company in eighteen sixty eight with

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a newfangled waffle press style of making eight horse shoes

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at a time in a mold rather than stamping them

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out manually with a hammer one by one The old

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way had a marginal cost of sixty cents A shoe

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to make the new way was more like a dime

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but the learning curves were vastly different in the first

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case the old school live making shoes While the process

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had few moving parts there was an anvil a hammer

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and a bunch of hot coals keeping the metal all

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you know soft and bendy Then pounding happened and the

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shoe was made so the learning curve was steep It

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took a worker maybe a week to be ableto work

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at I'll say ninety percent of the ultimate efficiency that

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they'd eventually be at five years later when they then

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be at ninety eight point two three percent efficiency stamping

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out like you know ten shoes a day or something

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like that Well roll the clock forward to the waffle

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Scheuer here this thing and the learning curve is massive

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Not only does there need to be ah whole system

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for bringing in forty times the wood as in the

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one shoe shop but there's all kinds of mechanical circuitry

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needed like the creation of the clay and iron mold

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for the shoes themselves Then the non melting pouring mechanism

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then literally gallons of molten steel and finally powder for

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the mold so that the steel shoes can be removed

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easily without chisels and well pains So in the early

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days of the waffle sure the company probably didn't produced

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any usable shoes for a week Then it had maybe

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two days a week that little the whole apparatus worked

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and then produced a decent load of Ah dozen maybe

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a few dozen Then after six months while the company

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was its seventy percent of its safe five year maximum

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a capacity as it learn See it's gradually going up

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this learning curve and percent throughput per week per day

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or however you want to do it all was good

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then until the Smith Thief put wet wood under the

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furnace and forgot to clean up the dry hay on

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the ground and wealth Wet wood boils the water inside

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of the fibers of the logs there which then explode

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sending out sparks and bad things happen so more learning

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had to happen And then three years from inception the

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waffle Shuler was here on the learning curve cranking out

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eight hundred shoes and hour and now rather than the

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old manual sure being the best in town while the 00:02:35.663 --> [endTime] horseshoe is on the other hoof

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