Hindsight bias is believing you knew all along what only became clear later. A textbook case of hindsight bias.
It makes past decisions look worse than they were, since the outcome is now obvious. Hindsight bias is why any inquiry must judge what was known at the time.
1nounhindsight biasBelieving you knew all along what only became clear later.
“Every account of the crash was written under hindsight bias.”
hindsight bias is a bias.
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