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arXiv:2103.16574 (physics)
[Submitted on 30 Mar 2021]

Title:"I'll Finish It This Week" And Other Lies

Authors:Kaley Brauer
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    Abstract: A small group of postdocs, graduate students, and
    undergraduates inadvertently formed a longitudinal study
    contrasting expected productivity levels with actual productivity
    levels. Over the last nine months, our group self-reported 559
    tasks, dates, and completion times -- expected and actual. Here,
    I show which types of tasks we are the worst at completing in the
    originally planned amount of time (spoiler: coding and writing
    tasks), whether more senior researchers have more accurate
    expectations (spoiler: not much), and whether our expectations
    improve with time (spoiler: only a little).

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures
Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
Cite as:  arXiv:2103.16574 [physics.pop-ph]
          (or arXiv:2103.16574v1 [physics.pop-ph] for this version)

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From: Kaley Brauer [view email]
[v1] Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:00:02 UTC (192 KB)
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