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What kind of thinking that you've done would fall into the category of wishful thinking?
From Wikipedia: Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence or rationality. Studies have consistently shown that holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes.
Reverse wishful thinking, or wishful thinking in reverse, can be said to occur in a person’s mind when, as a stern, relentless and usually pompous follower of a rational notion, he/she expects it to always be valid regardless of, and/or in spite of either not taking into full account all imponderables or, most common and notably, the lack of up-to-the minute research on the subject, thereby resulting in his/her wrongly assuming that decisions, recommendations and, especially, forecasts derived from that notion can only be the result of either factual evidence, or rationality as known to that person at a particular point in time, all of which invariably taking place before all the said imponderables, and up to the minute, yet public evidence are taken into full account.
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