hindsight

     

Hinsight bias is the inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place. Hindsight bias has been demonstrated experimentally in a variety of settings, including politics, games and medicine. In psychological experiments of hindsight bias, subjects also tend to remember their predictions of future events as having been stronger than they actually were, in those cases where those predictions turn out correct.

Trivia about hindsight

  • A detective looking back in regret on leads he should have followed up knows the cliche this "is 20/20"
  • The recognition of possibilities after an event's occurrence; mine's a perfect 20/20

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