Real Analogies

Monday, November 5, 2012

One of the most popular answers on Quora (> 4k upvotes!!!) draws a deep and very humorous analogy between the extreme difficulty/complexity of estimating the length of a coastline and how that depends on the length of the measuring stick, and the extreme difficulty/complexity of estimating the length of a software development project.
Posted by Joel Chan at 8:52 AM
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I like analogies. I collect examples of analogies from the real world here. Perhaps this will turn into a research paper of some kind. Perhaps not. Either way, it's a fun activity.

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