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plain and simple statistics. applicable to estimating a lot of other uncertain things beyond software
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html
Erik Bernhardsson Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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