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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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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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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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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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Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon

2011
Teresas Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, Jeylan T. Smortimer   +2 more
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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 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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