Researchers have shed light on the various factors that make us so susceptible to hindsight bias and identifying a few ways we might be able to combat it. The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game, the tumour that appeared on a second scan, the guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds - the situation may be different each time, but we hear ourselves say it over and over again: "I knew it all along." The problem is that too often ...Sunday, 9 September 2012
Study Finds How You Knew Something was Going to Happen Even Before It Did
Researchers have shed light on the various factors that make us so susceptible to hindsight bias and identifying a few ways we might be able to combat it. The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game, the tumour that appeared on a second scan, the guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds - the situation may be different each time, but we hear ourselves say it over and over again: "I knew it all along." The problem is that too often ...
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