Hindsight Bias

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Hindsight bias is around us on a daily basis. Say you were sitting in school and you had a test that day. You barely studied and just crammed into your brain as much knowledge as you could remember five minutes before the test. You begin to take the test and you just feel like you are getting all the answers wrong. You become very indecisive on what is the right and wrong answers to the questions. When you check the grade book a few days later and see that you received an A on the exam, you become enthusiastic. You begin to tell your friends you knew that you would get an A and it was not a big deal. That is an example of how hindsight bias could be applied to school. Hindsight bias can be applied to politics. It is actually a good term to

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