Is growth linear, not exponential?

Re:Is growth linear, not exponential? by Fomite on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:08PM (#31103024)

The dangerous bit is that an exponential curve will also be a fairly good fit for a logistic function that's not yet fully observed.

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Re:Is growth linear, not exponential? by LeegleechN on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:35PM (#31103335)

Every apparent exponential in the real universe must actually be a logistic or some other bounded curve.

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Re:Is growth linear, not exponential? by kbelder on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:51PM (#31104537)

Otherwise, we would have about a hundred trillion people infected with Covid by now.

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Re:Is growth linear, not exponential? by lumost on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:21PM (#31104326)

Except for the size of the Hubble volume /s

Cosmic inflation should guarantee an exponentially growing observable universe.

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Re:Is growth linear, not exponential? by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:58PM (#31105615)

Yes, and the one thing you expect on a logistic function is arguments about whether it's linear or exponential.

But with the amount of noise in economical data, I don't think is evidence of anything.

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