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Why Are All of the Children Perceived to Be Above Average? Stakeholders and the Lake Wobegon Effect in Attitudes toward Public Schools

State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 2023
AbstractThe Lake Wobegon effect, named for the fictional town where all children are above average, is well documented in surveys about education. Respondents tend to rate their local public schools higher in quality than schools overall in the state or nation, even despite contrary evidence.
Timothy Vercellotti, Peter Fairman
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Observer Perceptions of Overall System Quality – the Lake Wobegon Effect

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2015
Objective: For three different system categories—fabricated artifacts, built environments, and software interfaces, to compare and contrast observer rankings of the overall quality of a selected topic or artifact pertaining to that category, relative to rankings of the quality of different specific attributes of the same topic. Method: A paired samples
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Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999
Like the inhabitants of Garrison Keillor's (1985) fictional community of Lake Wobegon, most people appear to believe that their skills and abilities are above average. A series of studies illustrates one of the reasons why: when people compare themselves with their peers, they focus egocentrically on their own skills and insufficiently take into ...
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Informed Trading Through the Accounts of Children