The general term applied was «
hindsight forecasting».
A good example of this process was the failure to
hindsight forecast the global cooling from 1940 to 1980.
Not exact matches
While the know - it - all reminds people of their
forecasting prowess,
hindsight bias can have detrimental effects on one's finances or investment strategy.
I wasn't relying on credibility to make my point, thus my association with Pat Michaels (and, for full disclosure, my boss) doesn't seem to impact the contents of my comment — that it is easy to take credit in
hindsight for a correct
forecast, but, if you can't use it to reliably identify a future course, than it is of little good.
It was a well established mechanism a century ago that is now coming true, so when «skeptics» say attributing things in
hindsight can't be trusted, it makes a difference when it was actually
forecast by a theory that existed before any of it happened, doesn't it.