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==Description==
==Description==
'''Hindsight''', also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination to see [[events]] that have already occurred as being more [[predictable]] than they were before they took place. It is a multifaceted [[phenomenon]] that can affect [[different]] [[stages]] of designs, processes, [[contexts]], and situations. Hindsight bias may cause [[memory]] [[distortion]], where the recollection and reconstruction of [[content]] can lead to [[false]] [[theoretical]] outcomes. It has been suggested that the effect can cause [[extreme]] methodological problems while trying to [[analyze]], [[understand]], and [[interpret]] results in [[experimental]] studies. A basic example of the hindsight bias is when, after viewing the outcome of a potentially unforeseeable [[event]], a person believes he or she "knew it all along." Such examples are present in the [[writings]] of historians describing outcomes of battles, [[physicians]] recalling clinical trials, and in [[judicial]] systems trying to attribute [[responsibility]] and predictability of [[accidents]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight]
'''Hindsight''', also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination to see [[events]] that have already occurred as being more [[predictable]] than they were before they took place. It is a multifaceted [[phenomenon]] that can affect [[different]] [[stages]] of designs, processes, [[contexts]], and situations. Hindsight bias may cause [[memory]] [[distortion]], where the recollection and reconstruction of [[content]] can lead to [[false]] [[theoretical]] outcomes. It has been suggested that the effect can cause [[extreme]] methodological problems while trying to [[analyze]], [[understand]], and [[interpret]] results in [[experimental]] studies. A basic example of the hindsight bias is when, after viewing the outcome of a potentially unforeseeable [[event]], a person believes he or she "knew it all along." Such examples are present in the [[writings]] of historians describing outcomes of battles, [[physicians]] recalling clinical trials, and in [[judicial]] systems trying to attribute [[responsibility]] and predictability of [[accidents]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight]
==See also==
*'''''[[Foresight]]'''''
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Psychology]]