After the horror of 9/11,many people said the American government should obviously have foreseen the likelihood of this form of terrorism.This perception most clearly illustrates
A) overconfidence.
B) hindsight bias.
C) random sampling.
D) naturalistic observation.

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Hindsight bias refers to the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen the outcome. In this case, people believed that the government should have foreseen the likelihood of terrorism after 9/11, but this belief is based on hindsight bias.

After the Horror of 9/11,many People Said the American Government