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When provided with the unscrambled solutions to anagrams, people underestimate the difficulty of solving the anagrams.

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This is true. The phenomenon is called hindsight-bias, a phenomenon which occurs when one overestimates his/her ability to have predicted an event when he/she already knows the outcome.
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