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Question :
A Company predicted that the learning rate for production of a product would be 70%. The actual learning rate turned out to be 75%.
The following possible reasons were stated for this:
(i) The number of new employees recruited was higher than expected.
(ii) Unexpected problems were encountered in production.Which of the above reasons could have caused the difference between the expected rate of learning and the actual rate of learning?
(A) Both of the above.
(B) (i) only.Dear Sir,
This is a question from the Revision Mock Exam. The suggested answer is “(A)”. Given that I can’t understand how unexpected problems in production would increase the actual learning rate instead of decreasing it, I opted for answer “(B)”. Kindly clarify the reasoning behind statement (ii) increasing the actual rate of learning.
The higher the learning rate, the slower they are actually learning.
If the learning rate was 100% then they would never get any faster!
So a learning rate of 70% means faster learning than a learning rate of 75%.
75% means the learning is slower, which could be due to having new employees or to having problems in production.
I do suggest that you watch the free lectures, because I do stress the point within the lecture that the lower the learning rate, the faster the learning will be.
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