diff --git a/timestamped/2026-04-07_07-21-00.md b/timestamped/2026-04-07_07-21-00.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e443362 --- /dev/null +++ b/timestamped/2026-04-07_07-21-00.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +id: 2026-04-07T07:21:00-04:00 +aliases: [] +title: 2026-04-07 07:21:00 +tags: + - authorship/original + - destiny/permanent + - status/draft + - type/periodic/timestamped +daily: "[[2026-04-07]]" +date-created: 2026-04-07T07:21:00-04:00 +dg-publish: true +monthly: "[[2026-04]]" +quarterly: "[[2026-Q2]]" +weekly: "[[2026-W15]]" +yearly: "[[2026]]" +--- +# 2026-04-07 07:21:00 + +> [!quote] [[how-to-measure-anything-in-project-management#Conflating Uncertainty with Knowing Nothing]] +> Some objections to providing probability estimates +> seem to be based on the presumption +> that if they don't know something exactly, they know nothing. +> For example, a person might state something like, +> "I cannot estimate a 90% CI for that because I have no idea what that could be." +> They respond as if someone were still asking for some unreasonable precision +> as opposed to whatever range represents their uncertainty, +> however wide that range may be. + +Hubbard repeatedly conflates estimates of uncertain events +with personal estimates of trivia questions with certain answers. +These are functionally identical, +but _feel_ very different. +Hubbard could do better to correct this bias. + +If you don't know the answer offhand, +imagine it has been lost to time.