Question

Professor Smith told one class that drinking alcohol has been found to increase sexual desire. He informed another class that drinking alcohol has been found to reduce sexual appetite. The fact that neither class was surprised by the information they received best illustrates the power of
hindsight bias T/F

Answer 1

Answer:

True

Explanation:

In psychology, the term Hindsight bias refers to the phenomenon that happens when people think they already knew the outcome of an event before they were told so.

In this example, Professor Smith gave two different class contradictory information. However, neither class was surprised. We can see that they thought that they already knew "how things were" so they weren't surprised when the professor told them. Therefore, this would be an example of Hindsight bias.

Answer 2

Answer:True,this is indeed hindsight bias

Explanation:This is also referred to as a know-it-all-along phenomenon, which occurs when an individual claims to have predicted the event that can't be predicted. The person goes like "I knew this was going to be the results"they make something so unpredictable seems like it is predictable. It is as if they knew the out one before if even happens. This is sometimes or mostly due to overconfidence in our own ability to see things before they happen. These classmates tend to believe they knew this before they were even told about it.