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The Road to Lake Wobegon

Journal of Social Philosophy, 1999
Etude de la conception pacifique (peacemaking) de l'activite philosophique developpee par J. Sterba dans son ouvrage intitule «Justice for Here and Now» (1998), ou il offre une justification de la morale comme compromis entre l'egoisme et l'altruisme extremes.
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2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon

2019
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A Framework for Reconsidering the Lake Wobegon Effect

The Journal of Economic Education, 2008
The Lake Wobegon Effect (LWE) describes the potential measurement-error bias introduced into survey-based analyses of education issues. Although this effect potentially applies to any student-report variable, the systematic overreporting of academic achievements such as grade point average is often of preeminent concern.
Marianne Johnson, M. Ryan Haley, M. Kevin McGee   +2 more
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Wobegonian Modesty and Garrison Keilor’s Lake Wobegon Days [PDF]

, 2012
The humble Midwestern town also survives on modesty and a range of satellite sentiments and postures, depending very much on them in Garrison Keillor’s 1985 book Lake Wobegon Days. It is, firmly, a work of pastoral—a literary representation of social, emotional, and aesthetic dualities and tensions in the frame, or in mind, of rural or regional place ...
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Lake Wobegon Revisited: On Diversity and Education

Educational Researcher, 1993
I present the theses that current educational practices underestimate the magnitude of diversity in educational achievement and that disregarding diversity has the effect of widening the range of differences. I suggest that diversity in the rate of growth of capacity to process increasingly complex tasks partly underlies achievement differences.
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The Lake Wobegon Paradox

The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2020
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Getting to Lake Wobegon

2018
Sandra L. Laursen, Timothy J. Weston
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Kommen Systemiker:innen (auch) aus Lake Wobegon?

Familiendynamik, 2022
Matthias Ochs, Bernhild Pfautsch
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Die Kinder von Lake Wobegone

2022
Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson   +5 more
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Ecumenicity in Lake Wobegon

Liturgy, 1993
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