Well, it was a given that it wasn’t a linear equation, because ten minutes playing Devil Survivor can’t yield one-fourth of a battle finished. I was fairly confident that it was a polynomial expression, however, since in matters like writing and reading eventually there’s only so much you can take. Roleplaying is an activity that’s definitely better than quadratic—if I spend two hours straight on it at the right time, my companions and may well get six dozen responses in, while distributing that activity randomly over three days is more likely to yield about a dozen responses. So I picked cubic. I haven’t actually done any regression on it yet (it was midnight my time when I submitted this).
I am curious; how did you figure that out?
Well, it was a given that it wasn’t a linear equation, because ten minutes playing Devil Survivor can’t yield one-fourth of a battle finished. I was fairly confident that it was a polynomial expression, however, since in matters like writing and reading eventually there’s only so much you can take. Roleplaying is an activity that’s definitely better than quadratic—if I spend two hours straight on it at the right time, my companions and may well get six dozen responses in, while distributing that activity randomly over three days is more likely to yield about a dozen responses. So I picked cubic. I haven’t actually done any regression on it yet (it was midnight my time when I submitted this).