Mark Baer's excellent Letter about implicit bias on August 11 compels me to respond by applying what it teaches to the hindsight bias that is driving the rush to change the name of Hastings College of the Law.
Hindsight bias is "the tendency for people with knowledge of an outcome to exaggerate the extent to which they perceive that outcome could have been predicted. . . More colloquially it is known as 'Monday morning quarterbacking'" (se...
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