There are two cognitive biases which might be called the positive outcome bias:
- Positive outcome bias (publication) -- the tendency for researchers to publish research which had a positive outcome (redirects to publication bias).
- Positive outcome bias (prediction) -- a bias in prediction in which people overestimate the probability of good things happening to them. Related to wishful thinking.
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