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Racer juliette (rustandmoth)
Race Number 176
Date Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:57:10
Speed 68 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 99.7%
Rank 1st place (out of 4)
Opponents corneliusmith (3rd place)

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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. Even the strategy of picking the "most likely date" is not particularly safe, as the area to the left of the peak of the curve is barely a third. That says there is a two-thirds chance of missing the deadline.
— (book) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (see stats)