Estimation in the Hands of Amateurs

The count down to the last day of school had begun for my kids. Somehow we have 2 months to go, no vacation days left and yet that only equates to 30 days of school. Now I’m good at math but this seems off to me and maybe you see why. It doesn’t seem like we should be so horrible mislead by a time honored tradition of estimation. I’m rounding the 2 months by only a week and a half (and not taking into account weekends at all) and it’s doubling them amount of time in school.

Weird, tragic, inaccurate estimation…

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