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Creeping determinism The phenomenon whereby past events seem to have been inevitable, the outcome is seen to flow naturally from preceding events. Once the outcome of an event is known, memory of events which preceded the outcome is reconstructed in a manner which distorts perceptions of the prediction task prior to having knowledge of the outcome of the event.
(see also: Hindsight bias, Reconstructive memory and biases)
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