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Lake Wobegon Revisited

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
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Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon

2011
Doug Hartmann
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ROUTES TO LAKE WOBEGON

2002
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Lake Wobegon Dice

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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CEO Pay and the Lake Wobegon Effect

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The "Lake Wobegon Effect," which is widely cited as a potential cause for rising CEO pay, is said to occur because no firm wants to admit to having a CEO who is below average, and so no firm allows its CEO's pay package to lag market expectations. We develop a game-theoretic model of this Effect.
Rachel M. Hayes, Scott Schaefer
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Lake Wobegon Days (Book).

The Accounting Review, 1986
Abstract Reviews the book "Lake Wobegon Days," by Garrison Keillor.
Harvey S. Hendrickson, null H. S. H.
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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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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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