Outcome bias
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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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See also
- Deontology vs. teleology and consequentialism (ethical theories)
- Group attribution error
- Hindsight bias
- Historian's fallacy
- List of cognitive biases
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