7 Biases That Everyone Has (And How They F*ck Up Your Life)
4. Hindsight Bias: It's Much Easier To Predict The Past
You may have heard of Nostradamus, the French (alleged) seer who published collections of prophecies that have been the bane of my existence since before I was born.
I love my family but seriously guys, the X-files wasn’t a f*cking documentary, psychics don’t exist and Nostradamus – much like the Long Island Medium just makes a bunch of vague statements that relies on the reader making connections based on their own subjective interpretations.
Hindsight bias is the reason why people have a tendency to make connections between things after an event has occurred. We may look back at an event with a feeling the event was predictable despite having no objective evidence for being able predict it.
Hindsight bias is also the reason why the saying “Things happen for a reason” exist. No. No. Sometimes that reason is because you’re stupid and have made a poor choice and now you need to justify your poor choices so you can feel less bad about making them and breaking my f*cking Playstation Joel. Jerk.