Hindsight Bias

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconknew it all along
Executive Parlanceretrospective inevitability
Scholarly Discoursecreeping determinism
Babel ZenithHindsight Bias
Origin: Baruch Fischhoff

Etymology & Meaning

Believing past events were predictable after they occurred.

In the Boardroom

Claiming you 'saw it coming' after a market crash.

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