# Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

<https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Keep this in mind if you read "research" about estimation. 🤨

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT260: Weekly Thing #260 / Rash, Hashing, Arguably](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/260/), Briefly

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