ClaimsEliezer Yudkowsky

“On average, the students took 55 days to complete their thesis; 22 days longer than they had anticipated; and 7 days longer than their worst-case predictions.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky, paper author 2008 Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks (UC Berkeley (hosted))

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In the Buehler et al. study, students took on average 55 days to complete their thesis, 22 days longer than anticipated and 7 days longer than their worst-case predictions.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “In the Buehler et al. study, students took on average 55 days to complete their thesis, 22 days longer than anticipated and 7 days longer than their worst-case predictions.” (said 2008). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_7a35875ea3d0, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7a35875ea3d0

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