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What is hindsight bias?

Episode 760 13:30

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Have you ever watched a tense mystery movie, seen the surprise ending, and yelled, "I knew it all along!"? Well, did you really know it, or is your brain playing a massive trick on you? Welcome to the wild world of Hindsight Bias! In this mind-bending episode, Mira and Finn uncover one of the weirdest glitches in human memory. You'll learn all about a brilliant psychologist named Baruch Fischhoff, who in 1975 proved that our brains actually act like sneaky movie editors! Once we know how a story ends, our memories secretly rewind and reorganize all the clues to make the answer look completely obvious. Discover how Fischhoff used a trick history test about an obscure 1814 battle to prove that even experts get tricked by "creeping determinism." Find out why our brains love neat stories, how they erase our past confusion, and why understanding this awesome psychology trick is basically a real-life superpower! It stops us from unfairly blaming our friends on the playground when unexpected things go wrong. Get ready to rethink everything you thought you knew!

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