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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Hindsight"”.
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Hindsight Bias and Choice: Understanding Hindsight Bias and Perceived Control
Hindsight bias, more commonly called the "knew-it-all-along" effect is an experience of certainty that one would have to be able to solve a problem or predict an event when the solution or outcome is already known (Fischhoff, 1975). It is one of many heuristics used in everyday information …
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In Hindsight: Non-visible Patch Points
<p><em>E</em>xhibition consisting of seven ceramic vessels. I constructed these objects on the potter’s wheel by throwing and joining sections together based on a set of loose measurements and visual guidelines I have developed using slips and underglazes for mark making and soda firing for final …
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The Hindsight Bias: Judgment Task Differentiation
<p>Recent hindsight bias research suggests that modern Cognitive Reconstruction theories that model hindsight effects as non-unitary phenomena potentially confound their findings by not differentiating between judgment tasks. This experiment tests a non-unitary approach of modeling hindsight …
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Trust Judgments and the Hindsight Bias Effect
… trust decisions through the lens of the hindsight bias effect. The hindsight bias effect (sometimes known as the "I knew it all along" effect) is a consequence that often follows judgments under uncertainty. Two experiments examined participants' evaluations of trust outcomes to determine …
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Hindsight and sexuality in the French Lieutenant's Woman
The following thesis investigates the role of hindsight and sexuality in The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles. In this instance I look closely at the two main characters of the novel, namely Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, and I show the varying levels of freedom that each character …
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2020 Hindsight: Reflections on My First Year of Teaching
<p>This ethnographic narrative spans my first year as a middle school science teacher. In it, I reflected on myself, my practices, my students, and the broader context of the school at which I was teaching<strong>, </strong>including the effects of the Covid-19 school closures. I interviewed …
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The Trouble with Hindsight Comparing Depictions of Pre-Troubles Northern Ireland in Pre-1968 and Post-1968 Fiction
In this paper, I examine how hindsight concerning significant historical events affects the writing process, with particular reference to the case of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>I explore fictional depictions of Northern Ireland before the Troubles (pre-1968) and compare how novels …
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Hindsight in 2021: Memories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the First Year of Teaching
While there are many common challenges that are experienced by all new teachers, pressures on new teachers can differ based on the context in which they work. This qualitative study aims to highlight the first-year challenges and most effective supports experienced by first-year teachers in a small …
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Juror decision-making in professional liability cases: A model and tests in the audit litigation setting
… light of an ill-defined standard of care and in hindsight. In this dissertation, I develop a model of juror decision making for professional negligence cases and test it in the auditing setting.
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Male Infertility: The Process to Seeking Treatment
… Break, Financial Impacts, Cultural Impacts, and Hindsight . This study aims to fill the gaps of literature regarding infertility and enhance the overall literature in general with male-factor infertility in order to improve the care delivery to couples with infertility, especially male-factor.
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Chamier the Epicurean : the life and works of George Chamier (1842-1915)
… In the novels, he makes sense of his life in hindsight as a sentimental education. He has his autoethnographical “stand-ins” take on a series of sentimental personas in the attempt to get themselves settled as they move through the Australasian colonies in an ironic appropriation of the grand …
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Optimal capital structure for JSE listed companies
… asked two central questions, with the benefit of hindsight. Firstly, could JSE listed companies have used more debt to finance their operations during this period? Secondly, how much additional debt could these companies have used and thereby increase shareholder value? An optimal debt ratio …
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A Few Slices of Pie: The Life and Legacy of Scottie Fitzgerald Smith
… letters to her. With twenty-five years of hindsight chasing her down a highway of family legacy, Scottie offered a brief glimpse into her childhood—a subject she avoided discussing with anyone, including her own children. Even rarer, according to her daughter, Eleanor Lanahan, were the few …
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Predictors of Decision-Making and Well-Being among Victims of Sexual Assault
… with how victims come to view their decisions in hindsight. The concordance between their decisions immediately following the assault and the decisions they wish they had made in retrospect can have substantial implications for mental health and well-being. Using a national sample of women …
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Understanding place after Katrina : predatory planning and cultural resistance in New Orleans Tremé Neighborhood
… and the construction of new housing. However, hindsight and scholarship coupled with the experience of thousands of residents, has taught us that the lasting effects of urban renewal included displacement of residents, disruption of community ties, and extensive psychological traumas associated …
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New Organization Forms: An Examination of Alienation and Ideology in the Postindustrial Workplace
… While my hypotheses were not supported, hindsight suggests an alternative hypothesis for further study: Employees with differing ideological dispositions can both prosper in the postindustrial workplace as long as elements of the traditional economic compact are in place.
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Place That Lives-- Urban Mixed-Use Development in response to Christopher Alexander
… the challenges I faced and, with the benefit of hindsight, my further reflections on the project, as well as a brief introduction to the area for further study. The book is organized in chronological order of thesis development.
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Codification of the Business Judgment Rule in Section 76 (4) Companies Act 2008: comparing the South African with the German approach
… the concrete judicial review, the avoidance of hindsight biases and the unjustified extension of judicial review by over interpreting the term proper purpose. Although it is hardly possible to present practical solutions for all these problems in a minor thesis, reviewing the rule, its …
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At the Crossroads Commercial Music and Community Experience The Quonset Auditorium - A Roadhouse on the Dixie Highway
… music, and the civil rights movement. With hindsight, we can see that the Quonset Auditorium stood at a crossroads as regards these social and technological movements of the post-WW II era and the metaphor of crossroads has been applied throughout this study. Roadhouses have received little …
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