Question

Niaz's car breaks down, and he is convinced that it was a predictable event even though there was no way of knowing it would happen. this exemplifies ________.

Answer 1

The problem above is an example of hindsight bias, a psychological term which is used to describe the overestimation of a person to foresee the probability of an event happening even though factors are present that may contribute to the probability. These often results to unexpected events.