Hindsight bias is:
A) the tendency to be overly confident in the correctness of judgments.
B) the tendency, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable.
C) a cognitive bias where some evidence is overvalued, but other evidence is undervalued.
D) the assumption that immediate experience provides all the information needed to make a conclusion.

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Hindsight bias refers to the common human tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome of that event, even if there was no reasonable basis for such a prediction. It is often summarized by the phrase "I knew it all along."

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