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Investing in entrepreneurs: The case of franchising

Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 3785-3794, December 2022., 2022
Whether meant to improve public policy, private lending, or personal choices by individuals, investing in successful entrepreneurs is essential. Successful entrepreneurs typically have high human capital. Investment in entrepreneurs who have lower human capital involves more risk. Research has shown that one type of entrepreneur, franchisees, typically
Steven C. Michael
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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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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies

Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 2017
This article explains the various meanings and ambiguities of the phrase “teaching to the test” (TttT), describes its history and use as a pejorative, and outlines the policy implications of the popular, but fallacious, belief that “high stakes” testing ...
Richard P. Phelps
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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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Patent Protection and the Global Access to Essential Pharmaceuticals during Patent Infringements under TRIPS

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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In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 345-360, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In our interdependent and complex world, lawyers play an increasingly important role. The legal profession depends on lawyers' commitment to the rules of professional conduct governing how they interact with clients, courts, third parties, and one another.
Albert Yoon
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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
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John J. Cannell
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The Source of Lake Wobegon

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
doaj  

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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Further Comment on "'Lake Woebegone,' Twenty Years Later"

Nonpartisan Education Review, 2006
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Richard P. Phelps
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