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+# 2025-12-18 14:18:??
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+### Estimating Golf
+
+What interests me most in [[construction-estimating]]
+is an idea you might call "estimating golf":
+the goal is to produce a satisfactory[^1] estimate,
+but the estimator can not view the project documents
+and must instead ask questions about the job
+(answerable in a sentence or less)
+of a neutral party ("the reader").
+The estimator fails if the estimate is unsatisfactory[^1],
+but otherwise is scored by number of questions asked.
+
+[^1]: satisfactory in terms of accuracy and precision,
+    according to the standards of the organization.
+    a control estimate must be prepared accordingly
+    by a neutral party ("the control").
+
+You could further imagine different brackets
+for required accuracy and precision,
+whether organization historicals are freely available
+or must be questioned like project details.
+
+The most interesting part of this problem is choosing when to stop,
+since it requires one to estimate their certainty of their estimate.