The Lake Wobegon effect is real: All general surgery residents appear to be better than average [PDF]
Surgery in Practice and Science, 2022 Resident evaluations remain controversial. Metric systems are employed to objectify evaluations. Our institution adopted the question “Relative to all other trainees that I have supervised over my career, I place this individual's performance in the ...
Thomas Szabo Yamashita +7 more
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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies [PDF]
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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Lake Wobegon’s Guns: Overestimating Our Gun-Related Competences [PDF]
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2016 The Lake Wobegon Effect is a general tendency for people to overestimate their own abilities. In this study, the authors conducted a large, nationally-representative survey of U.S.
Emily Stark, Daniel Sachau
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Measuring strengths and weaknesses in dimensional psychiatry. [PDF]
J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 2020 Background The Extended Strengths and Weaknesses Assessment of Normal Behavior (E‐SWAN) reconceptualizes each diagnostic criterion for selected DSM‐5 disorders as a behavior, which can range from high (strengths) to low (weaknesses). Initial development focused on Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety, Major Depression, and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation ...
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Programming Algorithms for Sacral Neuromodulation: Clinical Practice and Evidence-Recommendations for Day-to-Day Practice. [PDF]
Neuromodulation, 2020 Background In sacral neuromodulation (SNM), stimulation programming plays a key role to achieve success of the therapy. However to date, little attention has been given to the best ways to set and optimize SNM programming during the test and chronic stimulation phases of the procedure.
Lehur PA +7 more
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The Lake Wobegon Effect-Where Every Medicare Advantage Plan Is "Above Average". [PDF]
JAMA Health Forum, 2022 Teno JM, Ankuda C.
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Why Most Patients Are at Below-Average Risk. [PDF]
Ann Intern Med, 2015 Vickers AJ, Kent DM.
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The Lake Wobegon effect: are all cancer patients above average? [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2013 Wolf JH, Wolf KS.
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J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2012 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90540/1/j.1751-7176.2012.00592.x ...
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Commentary: "the Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities" (Wikipedia). [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2013 Smith TJ.
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