Hindsight bias

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Cognitive bias
gptkbp:affects Historical analysis
Decision making
Legal judgments
Medical diagnosis
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs knew-it-all-along effect
gptkbp:category Heuristics and biases
gptkbp:consequence Distorted memory of predictions
Overconfidence in personal judgment
gptkbp:describes Tendency to see events as more predictable after they have happened
gptkbp:example Thinking a sports outcome was obvious after the game
Believing one predicted an election result after it occurred
gptkbp:firstDescribed gptkb:Baruch_Fischhoff
1975
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hindsight bias
gptkbp:measures Experimental studies
gptkbp:opposedBy Foresight bias
gptkbp:relatedTo Judgment bias
Memory distortion
Outcome bias
gptkbp:studiedIn gptkb:Psychology
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hindsight
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6