> I recently estimated a task would take 30 minutes. My boss at my last job told me that he had observed that if he asked somebody “can you get this done by th

> I recently estimated a task would take 30 minutes. My boss at my last job told me that he had observed that if he asked somebody “can you get this done by the end of they day”, he would get an accurate answer (either yes or no). Any further out, there was no correlation between what they said and what they actually delivered.