Dr. Goldstein hopes to reveal that although some of the findings presented in her class may seem obvious, students would not have predicted them accurately. To do so, she asked her students to take a guess about the results of a study before describing the outcome. Many of the students' predictions were wrong. Dr. Goldstein is demonstrating what to her students?

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Dr. Goldstein is demonstrating the hindsight bias, which is the tendency for people to believe, after an event has occurred, that they would have predicted or expected the outcome.

Dr Goldstein Hopes to Reveal That Although Some of the Findings