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The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies

SIAM Journal on Computing, 2010
We introduce the hiring problem, in which a growing company continuously interviews and decides whether to hire applicants. This problem is similar in spirit but quite different from the well-studied secretary problem. Like the secretary problem, it captures fundamental aspects of decision making under uncertainty and has many possible applications. We
Michael Mitzenmacher, Andrei Broder, Eli Upfal   +2 more
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Benchmark to escape from Lake Wobegon

Benchmarking, 2011
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate whether an employee reports an accurate view of the relative performance level of the organisation for which they work.Design/methodology/approachUtilizes a survey of 2,517 senior managers, managers and team leaders from 120 different organisations in nine different countries.FindingsThere is significant and ...
Simon Croom, Dawei Lu
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The Lake Wobegon Effect

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
What is the Lake Wobegon Effect? How can we explain this phenomenon? Is the Lake Wobegon Effect an artifact of the methodology used in the 1987 study?
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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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A New Look at Lake Wobegon: Who’s in Your Canoe?

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018
We re-examine the Lake Wobegon effect for reported GPA using data from students enrolled in principles of economics courses. Students are well known to over-report their GPA on surveys. In addition to standard measures of the mean difference, we extend the analysis to understand the distribution of response error using quantile regression analysis. We
Chris Bollinger, Tisha L. N. Emerson, Linda English, Gail M. Hoyt   +3 more
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The Lake Wobegon Effect Revisited

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988
In the summer 1988 Issue of EM, John Cannell presented evidence Indicating that most states and schools are scoring above average on nationally normed elementary achievement tests. This phenomenon has come to be known as the Lake Wobegon Effect after the mythical town of Lake Wobegon where all children are above average.
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A Cultural Geography of Lake Wobegon

Howard Journal of Communications, 1998
This study, a cultural analysis of Lake Wobegon monologues recorded from public radio between October, 1993, and February, 1995, shows how Garrison Keillor's vision of the characters, values, and landscape of this small Midwestern town can be examined within a broader cultural/political context to show how it is subsumed within the larger, more ...
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: A Skeleton in the Testing Closet?

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988
In this article, officials of the U.S. Department of Education explain what they think of the “Lake Wobegon” phenomenon brought to widespread attention by Dr. Cannell– and what the Department is doing about it.
Gary W. Phillips, Chester E. Finn
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Compensation and risk: A perspective on the Lake Wobegon effect

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2019
Abstract We investigate an alternative economic channel of a positive relationship between risk and compensation, as documented by Cheng et al. (2015). We propose that when information asymmetry exists, firms generally seek to use compensation as a signal of their CEOs’ ability.
Zhentao Zou, Jiangyuan Li
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