In hindsight, the Louisiana Purchase could be considered one of Thomas Jefferson ’ s greatest contributions to the United States.

In hindsight, the Lindros trade is seen as one of the most one-sided deals in sports history, and a major foundation for the Nordiques / Avalanche franchise successes over the next decade.

He points out that it is an important component of open-mindedness as it allows one to hold different perspectives at the same time and therefore avoid hindsight bias.

Generally, a learning algorithm is said to overfit relative to a simpler one if it is more accurate in fitting known data ( hindsight ) but less accurate in predicting new data ( foresight ).

Overall, one former, senior BoE official summed up the Bank's pre-crisis performance well: " How can you look back with the benefit of hindsight and see it as a success?

Stage one is different between the three paradigms although all involve an event, an event that has taken place ( misinformation effect ), an event that has not taken place ( false autobiographical memory ), and a judgment made by a person about an event that must be remembered ( hindsight bias ).

Researchers attempt to decrease the bias in participants has failed, leading one to think that hindsight bias has an automatic source in cognitive reconstruction.

In hindsight, one speculator said: " Government intervention raised public confidence in the market when it was near total collapse.

With hindsight, one might say that a new note was struck when a controversy about the meaning of the eucharist blew up around Berengar of Tours in the 11th century: hints of a new confidence in the intellectual investigation of the faith that perhaps foreshadowed the explosion of theological argument that was to take place in the 12th century.

As narrative is one of humanity's major cognitive instruments for structuring reality, there is some common ground between apophenia and narrative fallacies such as hindsight bias.

This was one of the few fleet actions of the nineteenth century, and as a major sea battle that involved ramming, it had a profound, though with hindsight a detrimental, effect on warship design and tactics.

Oakey with hindsight states that it was this album that saved the band ’ s career and one of the main reasons they are still recording today.

With hindsight Morrison says that " I like Phase I the least now-it wears its influences a little too obviously on its sleeve " He rates Phase III far higher, saying " I think it is one of the greatest superhero crossover events ever.

As a young man he was one of the " Whitechapel Boys ", a group including Isaac Rosenberg, Samuel Weinstein and Joseph Lefkowitz ( who coined the name in hindsight ).

In personal terms, one of Bordaberry's actions which proved in hindsight to have been disadvantageous was his appointment of Jorge Sapelli as Vice President of Uruguay, given the latter's resignation and public repudiation of him in 1973.

If one considers that 1 million out of 1. 5 million of the shells fired in the preliminary bombardment were shrapnel which could blow aside barbed wire but not harm enemy soldiers under cover, and that many of the remaining high-explosive shells failed to explode due to poor quality of mass-produced fuses, it is evident in hindsight compared to later battles that the bombardment had little chance of destroying a significant percentage of defenders.

The first Test of the series began with what many regard in hindsight as one of the worst captaincy decisions of all time, as England captain Nasser Hussain won the toss and chose to send Australia in to bat.

There were numerous possible solutions and with hindsight the game might be regarded as one of the first examples of ' emergent gaming '.

With hindsight, his judgment could be viewed as a wise one, for few of his contemporaries have established themselves at Ibrox.

With hindsight, critics have argued that the two types of game gradually became dichotomous as they evolved, though the two terms may still be conflated.

Unfortunately, the business information systems of the time made this difficult to discern for the managers of the company, which may partly explain the mistakes they made from hindsight.

To an extent, attitudes and value judgments may have been superimposed on that picture with the wisdom of hindsight.

The discontent reported by the chronicles may have been the result of hindsight, however ; there is no sign that the established nobility objected to the ennoblement of Gaveston at the time.

This study is frequently referred to in definitions of the hindsight bias, and the title of the paper, “ I knew it would happen ”, may have contributed to the hindsight bias being interchangeable with the term “ knew it all along ” hypothesis.

Recent studies involving the hindsight bias have investigated the effect age has on the bias, how hindsight may impact interference and confusion, and how it may affect banking and investment strategies.

Brain impairment in certain brain regions can also affect the thought process of an individual who may engage in hindsight thinking.

In cases where there is an assumption of risk, hindsight bias may contribute to the jurors perceiving the event as riskier due to the poor outcome.

Although with hindsight, the School's attempts to map crime may have produced some distortions, the work was valuable in that it moved away from a study of pattern and place toward a study of function and scale.

With hindsight this may be seen as something of a prototype of the municipal housing that followed in the post-war period and the beginnings of town planning as an accepted concern of the state.

With hindsight Brabham commented that the single cam motor's reliability may have been enough to supplant the more powerful Coswoths as late as the 1968 season.

At this event, Pounder helped to launch what became an intractable, international health crisis over the measles, mumps and rubella, MMR vaccine, stating with regard to the three-in-one inoculation: " In hindsight it may be a better solution to give the vaccinations separately.

In hindsight, it is equally likely that Heese may have been killed by Boers who suspected him of being a British spy.

Saga had reserved the call letters WNQW, possibly referring to the currently popular " Now " format of Top 40 music and announced them publicly in the media, which may have proved to be problematic in hindsight as seen below.

A physician also has a " duty to inform " a patient of any material risks or fiduciary interests of the physician that might cause the patient to reconsider a procedure, and may be liable if injury occurs due to the undisclosed risk, and the patient can prove that if he had been informed he would not have gone through with the procedure, without benefit of hindsight.

In hindsight, Stump felt that he was too overindulgent on Folie à Deux, recalling pushing the band in a direction they may not have wanted to go.

I think that, had the gig gone well, we may have struggled on with that lineup when, in hindsight, it was so obviously wrong.

Whether he is correct or not, may however be knowable only with the benefit of hindsight, long after the action occurred ; the total effect of a strategic political decision may not be known until years or even decades after it was taken.

It has been judged in hindsight to be the biggest blown call in official Jake Ireland's career, the incorrect ruling giving the Grey Cup victory to Toronto.

The hindsight bias, although not hitherto named as such, was not a new concept when it emerged in psychological research in the 1970s.

His choice of subject was prophetic: with hindsight the work appears to foretell, in the most powerful terms, the disasters that were shortly to be visited upon Europe in the Second World War.

The government attempts to modernize during the Self-Strengthening Movement were in the view of most historians with hindsight piecemeal and yielded little lasting results.

-adic numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897, though with hindsight some of Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using-adic numbers.

" His observations were, however, accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication.

At the time it was seen as a continuing success story, but with hindsight it is considered that during Sir Richard Greenbury's tenure as head of the company, profit margins were pushed to untenable levels, and the loyalty of its customers was seriously eroded.

So the kind of things we were planning for, with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps weren't quite the right things.

Political and managerial pressure to show results led to the three APT-P trains being launched in 1981 when, in hindsight, they were not ready for service ; many technical problems persisted and reliability was not high.

However, considerations about the future were of no interest to Hegel, for whom philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight.

William Gallacher, who would later become a Communist MP claimed that whilst the leaders of the rally were not seeking revolution, in hindsight they should have been.

Some attempts were made at mitigation work at the time, but with hindsight they were both inappropriate and inadequate and large blocks of gorse ( Ulex europeaus ) developed in the zone of disturbance on either side of the motorway creating further fragmentation of the site and causing serious fire risks.

They were named by the readers in hindsight due to their shared themes.

Part of their argument was that the Union troops were completely demoralized by their defeat earlier in the day, but Ewell's men were also disorganized, and decisions such as they were propounding are far simpler to make in hindsight than in the heat of battle and fog of war.

They did not make such a mistake even though they were under severe strain and did not have the benefit of hindsight as in the above exercise.

Two heuristics developed by Tversky and Kahneman were of immediate importance in the development of the hindsight bias, and these were the availability heuristic and the representativeness heuristic.

Judges involved in fraudulent transfer litigation cases were subject to the hindsight bias as well, resulting in an unfair advantage for the plaintiff.

With the benefit of hindsight he remarked that the German declarations of war on Russia and France in 1914 were "... justifiable but over-hasty and unnecessary ".

And I think that audiences, in hindsight, were right.

With hindsight, we can see how the electro-biologists ’ practice was closer to what we would now recognize as hypnotism, but at the time it seemed to some as though they were ignoring the welfare of their subjects, by failing to recharge their bodies with the vital magnetic fluid.

Wild also concluded there were internal factors that in hindsight could be seen to have hampered the project: he believed the chosen corporate structure of a joint venture lacked the governance strengths and focus of a company ; too many project delays had occurred ; and it would have been better to buy TGVs " off the shelf " than to proceed, as they had, with a train that was to be designed and built in Australia.

He was just too good a character to throw away, and somehow he suited miracle rebirth, but I confess in hindsight Pa and Junior were a step too far.

Philip E. L. Smith writes: " With the benefit of hindsight we can now see that many Late Paleolithic peoples in the Old World were poised on the brink of plant cultivation and animal husbandry as an alternative to the hunter-gatherer's way of life ".