You are watching Jeopardy with your brother and notice that he seems remarkable intelligent. After Alex Trebeck reads each answer, your brother states, "yep, I knew that". However, when you decide to mute the television during the reading of your answers, your brother has a very difficult time producing the correct answer. Your brother's initial response that he knew the correct answer after he heard it is an example of

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This scenario is an example of hindsight bias, which is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it (i.e., the "I knew it all along" phenomenon). When your brother hears the answer, he believes he knew it all along, but struggles to produce answers on his own when he can't hear them, illustrating this bias.

You Are Watching Jeopardy with Your Brother and Notice That