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The Lake Wobegon Effect

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
What is the Lake Wobegon Effect? How can we explain this phenomenon? Is the Lake Wobegon Effect an artifact of the methodology used in the 1987 study?
Gary W. Phillips
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The Lake Wobegon Effect Revisited

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988
In the summer 1988 Issue of EM, John Cannell presented evidence Indicating that most states and schools are scoring above average on nationally normed elementary achievement tests. This phenomenon has come to be known as the Lake Wobegon Effect after the mythical town of Lake Wobegon where all children are above average.
John Jacob Cannell
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: A Skeleton in the Testing Closet?

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988
In this article, officials of the U.S. Department of Education explain what they think of the “Lake Wobegon” phenomenon brought to widespread attention by Dr. Cannell– and what the Department is doing about it.
Gary W. Phillips, Chester E. Finn
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The “Lake Wobegon effect”: Implications for the assessment of exceptional children

Journal of School Psychology, 1991
In 1988, the summer issue of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice was devoted to discussions of the “Lake Wobegon effect.” This effect refers to Cannell's (1987) conclusion that all 50 states were above the national average in performance on standardized achievement tests.
Russell N. Carney
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Sea-Floor Depth and the Lake Wobegon Effect

Science, 1997
The ways in which actual measurements of sea-floor depth differ from average depths predicted by models of the solid Earth may provide useful information about how the planetary heat engine works. Actual depth is a function of plate tectonics and planetary heat flow. As S. Stein and C.
Seth Stein, Carol A. Stein
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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 ...
Justin Kruger
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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.
Thomas J. Smith
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Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect

The College Mathematics Journal, 2006
Allen J. Schwenk
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