Planning Fallacy

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Planning Fallacy

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Planning Fallacy

Colin Wright

Dec 14, 2021

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Brain Lenses

Planning Fallacy

First proposed in 1979, the Planning Fallacy says, in essence, that we underestimate how much time and cost will be required to complete a task when we're the ones performing that task, and we overestimate both metrics when someone else is performing it…

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