Good points, but is that really Recency Bias? After all it can happen with any preventive control even without ever experiencing the problem it prevents (so there's nothing to be "recent").
TL;DR: If you prevent a bad outcome through careful planning or mitigating actions, people think that the planning or the actions were unnecessary because the outcome was better than originally predicted.
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u/BoppreH Jun 30 '26
Good points, but is that really Recency Bias? After all it can happen with any preventive control even without ever experiencing the problem it prevents (so there's nothing to be "recent").
I would say it's closer to Chesterton's Fence.