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10/16/09 PHD comic: 'Parental Expectations vs. Time'

 
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Oct17-09, 10:20 PM   #1
 
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10/16/09 PHD comic: 'Parental Expectations vs. Time'


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title: "Parental Expectations vs. Time" - originally published 10/16/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!



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Seems to me to be more like exponential decay.
 
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10/16/09 PHD comic: 'Parental Expectations vs. Time'


Assuming the two images are intended to be the endpoints of the graph given, reproducing is over half of the expectation of of a nobel prize winning pro-athlete astronaut genius president. This is absurd, hence one of the axes must be either logarithmic or exponentially scaled
 
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Assuming the two images are intended to be the endpoints of the graph given, reproducing is over half of the expectation of of a nobel prize winning pro-athlete astronaut genius president. This is absurd, hence one of the axes must be either logarithmic or exponentially scaled
Hahaha Probably, man
 
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Seems to me to be more like exponential decay.
parental expectations are always on a log scale
 
Oct20-09, 10:46 PM   #7
 
reminds me of sister ^^
 
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