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Nietzsche, Keillor, and the Religious Heritage of Lake Wobegon
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2001 openaire +1 more source
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 Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies
SIAM Journal on Computing, 2010We 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 +2 more
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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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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 Lake Wobegon Effect Revisited
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988In 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.
John J. Cannell
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Employee recruiting and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003 Abstract Employers, educational institutions, and other organizations are often faced with the problem of selecting the most qualified candidate to fill an available position. To this end, many employers have adopted a tournament-like procedure consisting of an initial phase in which third-party “referees” are used to eliminate unqualified candidates,
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The College Mathematics Journal, 2012
We introduce Lake Wobegon dice, where each die is “better than the set average.” Specifically, these dice have the paradoxical property that on every roll, each die is more likely to roll greater t...
Jorge Moraleda, David G. Stork
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We introduce Lake Wobegon dice, where each die is “better than the set average.” Specifically, these dice have the paradoxical property that on every roll, each die is more likely to roll greater t...
Jorge Moraleda, David G. Stork
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