Bias Quote by Daniel Kahneman

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events…

— Hersh Shefrin

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Hindsight bias and focusing only on the operator's role in accidents prevents us from fully learning from accidents and making significant progress in improving…

— Nancy G. Leveson

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

— Clayton Christensen

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

— Daniel Kahneman

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias,…

— Daniel Kahneman

“This example highlights two aspects of choice that the standard model of indifference curves does not predict. First, tastes are not fixed; they vary…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in…

— Jill Santopolo

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage…

— Bernhard Schlink

“in any company’s greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.”

— Jon Gertner

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of…

— Jim Beaver