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# Estimating Isn't Engineering

A peer recently expressed frustration to me
about the declining quality of construction drawings,
specifically how scope is often ~~required but not detailed~~.

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TODO: discussion based on the difference between engineering,
(which requires knowledge of subject matter)
and estimation
(which requires knowledge of ~~impact~~).
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It's not engineering to budget for the most likely case.

Estimators need not know _why_ there tends to be ~~example~~,
they need need only have basis for applying that generalization to another project.