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The Lake Wobegon effect is real: All general surgery residents appear to be better than average [PDF]
Surgery in Practice and Science, 2022 Resident evaluations remain controversial. Metric systems are employed to objectify evaluations. Our institution adopted the question “Relative to all other trainees that I have supervised over my career, I place this individual's performance in the ...
Thomas Szabo Yamashita +7 more
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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies [PDF]
Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 2017 This article explains the various meanings and ambiguities of the phrase “teaching to the test” (TttT), describes its history and use as a pejorative, and outlines the policy implications of the popular, but fallacious, belief that “high stakes” testing ...
Richard P. Phelps
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The Lake Wobegon Effect-Where Every Medicare Advantage Plan Is "Above Average". [PDF]
JAMA Health Forum, 2022 This JAMA Forum discusses the 5-star quality rating system for Medicare Advantage plans, the quality measures that are used to generate the ratings, and the increased payments disbursed as a result of the higher ratings.
Teno JM, Ankuda C.
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Lake Wobegon’s Guns: Overestimating Our Gun-Related Competences
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2016 The Lake Wobegon Effect is a general tendency for people to overestimate their own abilities. In this study, the authors conducted a large, nationally-representative survey of U.S.
Emily Stark, Daniel Sachau
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The Lake Wobegon effect: are all cancer patients above average? [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2013 ContextWhen elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article “the Lake Wobegon effect” taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's
Wolf JH, Wolf KS.
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Commentary: Like the children of Lake Wobegon: All aortic cannulation strategies are above averageCentral Message [PDF]
JTCVS Techniques, 2020 Louis H. Stein, MD, PhD +1 more
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2010 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberateeducator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results,resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2007 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2012 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90540/1/j.1751-7176.2012.00592.x ...
Stern RH.
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An analysis of the environment and competitive dynamics of management research [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines some of the controversies facing business schools in their future evolution and pays particular attention to their competitive positioning as centres of management research.
Alex Wilson, Eric Cornuel, Howard Thomas
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