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Judging a decision based on its outcome rather than the quality of the decision at the time.
Prevents learning from experience, rewards lucky idiots, and punishes unlucky experts.
This bias makes us terrible at learning from experience because we focus on results rather than process, making us repeat good luck and avoid good strategy.
"Evolution gave you pattern recognition. Marketing gave you patterns to recognize. Guess who's winning?"