The planning fallacy only occurs when planning for our own tasks, interestingly, us humans take a much more pessimistic approach when estimating for other people.
Not always. I've known a number of cases where bosses, clients, or even co-workers set unrealistic deadlines for others. (You even mentioned a few such cases.)
By the way, I've written about this phenomenon as well, and broken it down into several root causes and how to fix them.
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Yeah of course, as I mentioned with Elon Musk setting unrealistic deadlines!
What I meant is that if someone from a 3rd party standpoint were to make an honest estimation of time for a particular person to do a task it would likely be more pessimistic.
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Not always. I've known a number of cases where bosses, clients, or even co-workers set unrealistic deadlines for others. (You even mentioned a few such cases.)
By the way, I've written about this phenomenon as well, and broken it down into several root causes and how to fix them.
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Jason C. McDonald ・ Jan 2 '18 ・ 11 min read
Yeah of course, as I mentioned with Elon Musk setting unrealistic deadlines!
What I meant is that if someone from a 3rd party standpoint were to make an honest estimation of time for a particular person to do a task it would likely be more pessimistic.