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Knew It All Along: With Guests Kathleen Vohs, Douglas Porch & Julian Jackson

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

CHAPTER

How Hindsight Bias Affect Our Perception

Hindsight bias is a phenomenon where something you would have found confusing or unknowable in foresight suddenly seems obvious in hindsight. It's closely related to another bias, called the Curse of Knowledge,. We can't accurately remember what it was like before the information was available to us. Once people know about an outcome that they think they would have been able to foresee, but they don't why do they make this error? Kathleen Vos: Is it somehow giving us some sort of evolutionary advantage?

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