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title: Ambiguity in Construction Estimating
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- topic/ambiguity
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- topic/construction
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- topic/estimating
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- type/cross-topic
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dg-publish: true
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# Ambiguity in Construction Estimating
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Cross-topic of [[ambiguity]] and [[construction-estimating]].
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I hate to come off as pedantic,
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but I care a lot about standardized terminology
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because spending a few minutes to be more thoughtful in specification
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can save hundreds of people cumulative hours of confusion.
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And the problem with standardization, of course,
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is that sometimes it works,
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and undoing years of poor conditioning is... not easy.
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## Naming Conventions (Use Case vs. Description)
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Related topic: [[heuristics#Realism vs. Instrumentalism]]
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Naming by use case is intuitive for those without estimating or field experience,
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but has the side effect that those accustomed to the names
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will inevitably _treat them as descriptive_,
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leading to [[category-mistake]].
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| Use Case | Description |
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| ------------------- | ------------- |
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| Hi-Hat | Daisy-Chain |
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| Furnished By Others | Rough-In Only |
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