A sound decision gets judged by how it turned out, not how it was made

Shown the exact same medical choice, people rated a doctor's judgement as worse whenever the patient happened to die — even though the information available at the time of the decision was identical either way. Outcome bias means pure luck quietly rewrites how wise a choice looks in hindsight.

— Jonathan Baron & John C. Hershey, Outcome Bias in Decision Evaluation — Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988

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