Martin was in a car accident that left him in a coma and near death. his physicians predicted that he would never wake up, but 13 days after the accident, martin did wake up and was soon on the road to recovery. martin's aunt marie proudly claimed, "i knew all along that marty would make it." this illustrates a thinking error called

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Martin was in a car accident that left him in a coma and near death. his physicians predicted that he would never wake up, but 13 days after the accident, martin did wake up and was soon on the road to recovery. martin's aunt marie proudly claimed, "i knew all along that marty would make it." this illustrates a thinking error called

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Geovanni Zuniga · Answer 1

The answer is Hindsight Bias Hindsight Bias also known as I knew it all along phenomenon. Meaning of Hindsight is understanding something only after the event is occured. Here we can see that Marie claimed that Martin would make it only after his recovery which is said to be done in hindsight. But in reality there was no base to predict this outcome.