SteveStrummerUK
I understand this graph fully.
It shows how much you have to shift from your original viewpoint on a particular topic when you realise through reactance that people have exposed it as being a crock of horsemeat and therefore you feel a need morph it into something completely different to what it was at the outset.
Is it known as the McQ factor?
So say for example you wanted to signify at the beginning that your observation was about good suppliers of products and then decided to turn that observation into a thread about about, say again for example, building a custom mic from stock parts this graph then signifies the amount of shift that is occuring from that original standpoint as the thread progresses.
(edited to add some theoretical examples for illustration purposes)