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History

Everything on this site about history — each one naming the study behind it.

Your baseline for intelligence has shifted over the decades.
The Flynn effect describes the observed rise in raw IQ scores throughout the 20th century.…
You rewrite your memory to claim you saw it coming.
Fischhoff (1975) demonstrated that after an event occurs, people consistently overestimate their ability to have predi…
You confuse your current opinion with your past beliefs.
The hindsight bias creates the illusion that you knew something would happen, even when you had no evidence for it.…