Counterfactuals

Tom Geraghty · Models & Critique, Measurement

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Examines counterfactual thinking — 'if only we'd done X' — as a form of hindsight bias that sounds analytical but is fictional. Uses Friends and a major cloud outage as entry points to show how counterfactuals tidy messy reality into false clarity, hampering real learning.

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