It’s easy to find a way to win something in hindsight with perfect information, the trick is to make the correct decisions at the time with imperfect information.
Saying “Hitler would have won if he did this” is a total bias of hindsight. It also ignores the fact that if Hitler was behaving differently, the allies would have responded differently.
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It’s easy to find a way to win something in hindsight with perfect information, the trick is to make the correct decisions at the time with imperfect information.
Saying “Hitler would have won if he did this” is a total bias of hindsight. It also ignores the fact that if Hitler was behaving differently, the allies would have responded differently.