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Outcome Bias

Outcome bias is a cognitive bias that can lead to poor decision making. It occurs when people judge the quality of a decision based on its outcome rather than the quality of the decision itself. This article will provide an overview of outcome bias and discuss strategies

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The outcome bias is an error made in evaluating the quality of a decision when the outcome of that decision is already known. Specifically, the outcome effect occurs when the same "behavior produce[s] more ethical condemnation when it happen[s] to produce bad rather than good outcome, even if the outcome is determined by chance".

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