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News Map Gaps: Regional News Coverage in the City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
'Why isn't my town on the map?' (Keillor 1985: 90) - The lament of residents of the mythical Lake Wobegon, when 50 square miles of central Minnesota were mistakenly omitted by government surveyors.
Tannock, Anne
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Does Your Dog Really Have a Better Life Than Other Dogs? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In a recent study, subjects rated the welfare of dogs, ranging from street dogs and fighting dogs to show dogs and personal pets. Nearly everyone thought their dog had a better life than other types of dogs—including other peoples\u27 pets.
Herzog, Harold
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Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2021
Menden-Deuer S   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Photo contest 2005 : life on Lake Erie

open access: yes, 2005
Title from PDF p. [1] (viewed Mar. 22, 2005).; "While exploring Ohio's beautiful shore, be sure to take a camera along to capture the many views surrounding you.
Ohio Lake Erie Commission.
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Interpretability, credibility, and usability of hospital-specific template matching versus regression-based hospital performance assessments; a multiple methods study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Health Serv Res, 2022
McGrath BM   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The hiring problem and Lake Wobegon strategies. Extended draft version, http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kirsch/pubs/ hiring/hiring-submit.pdf

open access: yes, 2014
We introduce the hiring problem, in which a growing com-pany continuously interviews and decides whether to hire applicants. This problem is similar in spirit but quite dif-ferent from the well-studied secretary problem.
Sergei Vassilvitskii   +5 more
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The Source of Lake Wobegon

open access: yes
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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