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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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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
Andrei Z. Broder, Adam Kirsch, Ravi Kumar, Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal, Sergei Vassilvitskii   +5 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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Sea-Floor Depth and the Lake Wobegon Effect

Science, 1997
The ways in which actual measurements of sea-floor depth differ from average depths predicted by models of the solid Earth may provide useful information about how the planetary heat engine works. Actual depth is a function of plate tectonics and planetary heat flow. As S. Stein and C.
Seth Stein, Carol A. Stein
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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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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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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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Kommen Systemiker:innen (auch) aus Lake Wobegon?

Familiendynamik, 2022
Matthias Ochs, Bernhild Pfautsch
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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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Lake Wobegon Upside Down: The Paradox of Status-Devaluation

Social Forces, 2006
This paper examines a cognitive bias whereby respondents in postcommunist Bulgaria systematically decrease their self estimates on material welfare in contrast to the well-established status-enhancement bias. The analysis shows that the main reason for the occurrence of status-devaluation is the experience of relative deprivation in postcommunism ...
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