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Employee recruiting and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & 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,
John Moran, John Morgan
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 John J. Cannell's late 1980's “Lake Wobegon” reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains. The Cannell studies have been referenced in education research since, but as evidence that high stakes (and not cheating or lax ...
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Voices in Bioethics, 2014 Patents are negative legal rights that act as stop signs to prevent non-innovators from making, using, or selling inventions without expressed permission from inventors.
Emmanuel Kornyo
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Editorial: A Quiet Week in Lake Wobegon? [PDF]
British Journal of Social Work, 2016 As the English summer finally decided to arrive and the cold damp days become distant memories, the ‘Editorial Office’ relocated to its temporary summer seaside annex. The new base is a peculiarly English large static caravan in a small East Yorkshire town called Hornsea.
Malcom Golightley, Margaret Holloway
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News Map Gaps: Regional News Coverage in the City [PDF]
, 2002 'Why isn't my town on the map?' (Keillor 1985, p.90) The lament of residents of the mythical Lake Wobegon, when fifty square miles of central Minnesota were mistakenly omitted by government surveyors.
Tannock, Anne
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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National AverageNationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average [PDF]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2017 no ...
John J. Cannell
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Nonpartisan Education Review, 2005 John J. Cannell's late 1980's “Lake Wobegon” reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey of New Optimal Contracting Theories [PDF]
, 2009 Bebchuk and Fried (2004) argue that executive compensation is set by CEOs themselves rather than boards on behalf of shareholders, since many features of observed pay packages may appear inconsistent with standard optimal contracting theories.
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With the Support of Listeners Like You : Lessons from U.S. Public Radio [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter provides an assessment of public broadcasting in the United States. It asserts that European public service broadcasting (PSB) could learn from U.S.
Huntsberger, Michael, Stavitsky, Alan G.
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Unicitatea personală – către o perspectivă sociologică
Sociologie Românească, 2014 In this paper we review the biases associated with the sense of personal uniqueness: better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, person-positivity bias, leniency error, sense of relative superiority, third-person effect, unrealistic optimism ...
Sergiu Bălțătescu
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