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hindsight bias

hindsight bias Hindsight bias is the tendency, after learning how something turned out, to remember having known or predicted that outcome more accurately than one actually did.

Hindsight bias is the tendency, after learning how something turned out, to remember having known or predicted that outcome more accurately than one actually did. In other words, new outcome information can reshape memory for earlier judgments so they seem closer to the real result in retrospect.