  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).
