3906.3: Waste

[jen_aside]

I want to coin the term/phrase "Biggest Weed Effect" or something like it. Basically, the scenario that happens when getting done with the biggest part of a job then makes the next-biggest part the biggest part [more visible] and so on and so forth, creating the feeling that something will never get done because one's initial estimation of the time

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[jenova_silver]

SO easy to wiki walk... Hey, there's the page devoted to tropes examined by the Mythbusters!

[digoraccoon]

I thought of "Recursive Matryoshka Doll" effect, but that does have the disadvantage of people not knowing what it's talking about. The iceberg analogy probably works best.