0 the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened:
1 the ability to understand, after something has happened, why or how it was done and how it might have been done better:
There are also certain topics to which with hindsight the authors would perhaps have given more emphasis.
With the benefit of hindsight, this is perhaps an obvious point.
In hindsight, then, the consternation over the exactness of the register seemed somewhat misplaced, as the much expected massive turnout never occurred.
With hindsight, we would recommend exactly the opposite.
Because, as 20/20 hindsight makes so clear, people have certain unreasonable fears about anything that smacks of somebody tampering with their food.
When people attempt to reconstruct their original judgment, they access the updated knowledge base, opening the door to hindsight bias.
With hindsight, the 1970s was a decade of 'superstitious learning'.
This was not for lack of interest, but for principled reasons that are now apparent in hindsight and are discussed below.
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