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Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:41:59 -0500
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Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]>
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Stirling Newberry replies to my observation:

>Len Fehskens wrote:

>>Why one would believe this model would apply to a creative individual's
>>output is beyond me.  Why not a more or less constant rate of output until
>>death?

>Would that this were so!  First, Creativity and production are not the same
>thing.  Second the relationship varies between artists

All true, and offering additional evidence that the S-curve model is
utterly inappropriately applied to artistic output.

len.

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