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Re:Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate by andreareina on Thursday November 07, 2019 @11:05AM (#21474394)
"P50 goals address sandbagging."

Hitting 100% when the expectation is ~50% means implies a really bad estimate, or that the estimates were a lie, probably in an attempt to look good.

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Re:Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate by archgoon on Thursday November 07, 2019 @06:33PM (#21478535)
Which on the face of it almost seems reasonable; but it seems that this would just introduce another form of sandbagging.

"What are your goals for this quarter?"

"Make the color of the button to be green instead of red and World Peace"

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