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id: 2026-04-08T13:53:59-0400
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title: 2026-04-08 13:53:59
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- status/draft
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daily: "[[2026-04-08]]"
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date-created: 2026-04-08T13:53:59-04:00
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# 2026-04-08 13:53:59
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> [!quote] [[hubbard_2025_project-management#Conflating Uncertainty with Knowing Nothing]] (text decoration added)
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> An assumption is a statement we treat as true for the sake of argument, regardless of whether it is true.
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> Assumptions are necessary if you have to use deterministic accounting methods with exact points as values.
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> ==You rarely, if ever, know an exact point with certainty,==
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> ==so any such value must be an assumption.==
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Assumptions are frowned upon in [[construction-estimating]],
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but they are only made necessary by the insistence on exact values.
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