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‘I Knew It All Along…Didn’t I?’ – Understanding Hindsight Bias
September 7, 2012 by NewsBot
The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game. The tumor 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 we actually didn't know it all along, we only feel as though we did...