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ptom
@ptom.net

I've seen the "business math telephone" version of this, where in additional to general ranging and conversion errors you have increased pressure to provide optimistic figures the higher up the chain you go. A realistic estimate with error bars gets an order of magnitude glow up by the end. :/

Andrew
@lesswrongmorekind.bsky.social

My work sells a device that can be reset by holding a button for at least 10s. So people write 12s, just to be sure. Then 20s to give leeway, people sometimes count too fast. When the instructions get up to 60s, someone will notice and correct it back down to 10s, and it starts over again!

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