"I'll Finish It This Week" And Other Lies
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,...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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30-03-2021
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| Summary: | 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). |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2103.16574 |