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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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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Why Most Patients Are at Below-Average Risk [PDF]
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2015 This commentary discusses the paradoxical finding that most patients are at below-average risk and can expect to experience less-than-average benefits from a treatment.
Andrew J Vickers, David M Kent
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Are All Cancer Patients above Average? [PDF]
Milbank Quarterly, 2013 ContextWhen elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article “the Lake Wobegon effect” taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's
Wolf JH, Wolf KS.
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The Lake Wobegon Effect-Where Every Medicare Advantage Plan Is "Above Average". [PDF]
JAMA Health Forum, 2022 This JAMA Forum discusses the 5-star quality rating system for Medicare Advantage plans, the quality measures that are used to generate the ratings, and the increased payments disbursed as a result of the higher ratings.
Teno JM, Ankuda C.
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Commentary: "the Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities" (Wikipedia). [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2013 H aving read the article by Wolf and Wolf in this issue of The Milbank Quarterly, the oncologist part of me asks, “Where’s the beef?” This is typical care: Mrs. Wolf, an eightyyear-old former smoker but healthy woman, is found (serendipitously) to have a resectable lung cancer and is treated with a curative resection based on her physiological age ...
Smith TJ.
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The lake wobegon effect reversed: Commentary on “the gesell assessment: Psychometric properties” [PDF]
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992 By now the “Lake Wobegon Effect” has become famous in public education. Taken from a description of Garrison Keillor’s mythical community, “where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average,” it has become a watchword for how tests can be used to distort achievement.
Samuel J. Meisels
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Compensation and risk: A perspective on the Lake Wobegon effect
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2019 Abstract We investigate an alternative economic channel of a positive relationship between risk and compensation, as documented by Cheng et al. (2015). We propose that when information asymmetry exists, firms generally seek to use compensation as a signal of their CEOs’ ability.
Jiangyuan Li, Jinqiang Yang, Zhentao Zou
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Employee recruiting and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior and 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 Morgan
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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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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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