Have you ever found yourself saying, “I saw that coming”? If so, you may have been wrong. Hindsight bias, sometimes referred to as the “knew-it-all-along” effect, is a common cognitive bias that ...

“Hindsight is 20/20,” one often hears in the context of a tendency to evaluate past choices more clearly in light of new information. But the perfect “20/20” score, referring to a measure of visual ...

Sylvan Browne suggests a way to deal with the problem of hindsight bias when assessing the obviousness of a patent application So-called hindsight bias can affect the assessment of the obviousness of ...