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Illusory superiority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Illusory superiority (also known as better-than-average effect ) is a cognitive bias in which people overestimate the degree to which they possess desirable qualities, relative to others, or undere...
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Lake Wobegon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor. Keillor reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home...
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The Lake Wobegon effect is the human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. It is named for the fictional town of Lake Wobegon from the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, where, according to Garrison Keillor, "all the children are above average". ... In a similar way,
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in CEO pay has come to be known as the Lake Wobegon Effect. ... pay.1 We use this model to ask whether the Lake Wobegon Effect can increase CEO pay in ...
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The Lake Wobegon effect, also called the Lake Wobegon fallacy and the better-than-average effect, is a term used by psychologists to refer to the human tendency to report flattering beliefs about oneself and believe that one is above average.
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Harry defines The Lake Wobegon Effect thusly: ... Here's my question: Why does The Lake Wobegon Effect exist among lawyers? We hear frequently that we are hyper-critical, tend toward analysis-paralysis, etc., but I've never heard that we are bad at those things. Instead, our whole life's orientation is toward being...
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Further, the federal review, though well-intentioned, appears to be producing its own Lake Wobegon effect. The review has already approved 32 states, is about to approve three more, and is still examining the remaining 15 but will eventually approve them, the official told me.
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