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Are You Above Average? The Lake Wobegon Effect [PDF]
If there were children living on Old Kernersville Lake I’m sure they would be described as “above average,” just like those in Garrison Keillor\u27s fictional Lake Wobegon, “where all the women are strong and all the men are good-looking.
Reid, Raymond
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A quiet week in Lake Wobegon? [editorial]
As the English summer finally decided to arrive and the cold damp days become distant memories, the ‘Editorial Office’ relocated to its temporary summer seaside annex.
Margaret Holloway (17195329) +1 more
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Lake Wobegon’s Guns: Overestimating Our Gun-Related Competences
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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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies
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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Patents are negative legal rights that act as stop signs to prevent non-innovators from making, using, or selling inventions without expressed permission from inventors.
Emmanuel Kornyo
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17” x 22” unfoldedBrochure about the Clear Lake community including area information, pictures, and a ...
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Generation Alpha in the Digital Age. Anthropological Shifts and a Contextual Pastoral Response
The article offers a theological interpretation of the anthropological and spiritual challenges associated with Generation Alpha, a cohort formed in a fully digitized, technologically saturated environment.
Michał Wilkosz, Patryk Piotr Zając
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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National AverageNationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average [PDF]
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John J. Cannell
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In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems
ABSTRACT In our interdependent and complex world, lawyers play an increasingly important role. The legal profession depends on lawyers' commitment to the rules of professional conduct governing how they interact with clients, courts, third parties, and one another.
Albert Yoon
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Improving evaluative judgement: Countering the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Evaluative judgement is the ability to objectively evaluate the quality of one's own work. This is an important metacognitive skill for all students and graduates.
Lim, Kieran Fergus
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