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The answer HINDSIGHT has 25 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of hindsight in various dictionaries:
noun - understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
Perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
The rear sight of a firearm.
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A detective looking back in regret on leads he should have followed up knows the cliche this "is 20/20" |
The recognition of possibilities after an event's occurrence; mine's a perfect 20/20 |
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understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed. |
understanding the nature of an event after it has happened |
Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed. |
Perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred. |
The rear sight of a firearm. |
the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: |
the ability to understand, after something has happened, why or how it was done and how it might have been done better: |
Hindsight might refer to |
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Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it. It is a multifaceted phenomenon that can affect different stages of designs, processes, contexts, and situations. Hindsight bias may cause memory distortion, where the recollection and reconstruction of content can lead to false theoretical outcomes. It has been suggested that the effect can cause extreme methodological problems while trying to analyze, understand, and interpret results in experimental studies. A basic example of the hindsight bias is when, after viewing the outcome of a potentially unforeseeable event, a person believes he or she "knew it all along". Such examples are present in the writings of historians describing outcomes of battles, physicians recalling clinical trials, and in judicial systems trying to attribute res |