lake wobegon effect Concepts

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words

change their evaluation of something they have been manipulated into doing to preserve the impression that they are in control of their actions, and the Lake Wobegon Effect (named after Garrison Keillor’s fictitious town in which all the children are above average), in which a majority of people rate themselves above average

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to predict how well they would do relative to everyone else playing the game. The experimenters got a nice Lake Wobegon Effect: a majority thought they would do better than average. Now, in any Lake Wobegon Effect, it’s possible that not many people really are self-deceived. Suppose 70 percent of people say they are

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& Baumeister, 1997. 23. Self-serving biases: Goffman, 1959; Tavris & Aronson, 2007; Trivers, in press; von Hippel & Trivers, 2011; Kurzban, 2011. 24. Cognitive dissonance: Festinger, 1957. Lake Wobegon Effect and other positive illusions: Taylor, 1989. 25. Moral emotions as the basis for cooperation: Haidt, 2002; Pinker, 2008; Trivers, 1971. 26. Advantages of the Moralization

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The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman · 24 Sep 2018

model. Media organizations that subscribe to comScore get to choose the category or subcategory in which their site is placed. This can result in a “Lake Wobegon effect,” in which subscribing media organizations each choose the category or subcategory that looks most favorable. Most subscribing news organization thus get to say that they

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, 184–92; blogs and, 189; concentration and, 184; consumers and, 181–84; digital audience dynamics and, 184–86; diversity and, 189, 191; investment and, 183; Lake Wobegon effect and, 187; local digital news outlets and, 186–92; markets and, 182–92; models and, 181–85, 187, 190–91; newspapers and, 187, 190–91

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, 36, 60, 136–37, 148, 162, 164–73, 176–77, 180; increasing returns, 36–37, 63–64, 80–81, 181, 184; Krugman, 62–63, 80; Lake Wobegon effect and, 187; latent-factor, 45, 51–52; linear, 44, 51; local digital news outlets and, 186–92; media preferences and, 69–71; methodology and, 181

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, 167–70, 179; governance and, 170–75; infrastructure and, 168, 171, 176; innovation and, 173, 175; investment and, 169, 171, 174, 180; journalism and, 179; Lake Wobegon effect and, 187; limited resources and, 165–66; markets and, 166–67, 171, 173–75, 178, 203n28; Microsoft and, 168, 170, 173–75, 203n23; misconceptions on

The Broken Ladder

by Keith Payne · 8 May 2017

that they are better than average at most things. Which, as far as anyone can tell, is not strictly possible. This finding is called the Lake Wobegon effect, after Garrison Keillor’s fictional town “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average

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behind bars at the time they made that judgment, it seems to lack a certain objectivity. Over the years, hundreds of studies have replicated the Lake Wobegon effect. The studies show that most of us believe we are above average in intelligence, persistence, conscientiousness, badminton, and just about any other positive quality. The

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Chapter 5. Decision making is discussed in Chapter 3; work performance is discussed in Chapter 8; and conspiracy theories and other beliefs in Chapter 4. Lake Wobegon effect: M. D. Alicke and O. Govorun, “The Better-Than-Average Effect,” in The Self in Social Judgment, M. D. Alicke, D. A. Dunning, and J

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Kentucky, 51, 57–58, 119, 147, 152, 155, 190, 198, 201, 207 Kenya, 128–29 Kerry, John, 96, 100 Kraus, Michael, 40 Krosch, Amy, 169 Lake Wobegon effect, 16–17 Lambert, Alan, 95–96 Landau, Mark, 96 Lebanon, 149–50 Lerner, Mel, 143–45, 214 liberals. See conservatives vs. liberals life expectancy, 14

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

by Maria Konnikova · 28 Jan 2016 · 384pp · 118,572 words

. The judge listened closely. And he did award him a new sentence: ten years, instead of the original eight. It goes by many names. The Lake Wobegon effect. The better-than-average effect. Illusory superiority. Superiority bias. Whatever you call it, it means the same thing: we believe we are singular, whatever the

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely · 19 Feb 2007 · 383pp · 108,266 words

, or get a parking ticket if you overstay your meter by a few minutes? This positivity bias, as psychologists call it, has another name: “The Lake Wobegone Effect,” named after the fictional town in Garrison Keillor’s popular radio series A Prairie Home Companion. In Lake Wobegone, according to Keillor, “all the women

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Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy

by Diane Coyle · 14 Jan 2020 · 384pp · 108,414 words

closer to their rational self-interest if the problem and choices are simplified. Overconfidence A frequently observed phenomenon is over-confidence, also known as the Lake Wobegon effect (after the Garrison Keillor radio series set in the fictional community of Lake Wobegon, “where the all the women are strong, all the men are

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(e-reader), 150 Klinenberg, Eric, 156–57 Kuznets, Simon, 21 labor unions, 22, 35, 110, 118, 121, 220, 223 Laffer, Arthur, 230 Laffer curve, 230 Lake Wobegon effect, 182 Lamont, Norman, 165 Lancaster, Kelvin, 13 land reform, 166 law and economics movement, 33 Lawrence of Arabia (film), 62 Lawson, Nigel, 110 legitimacy, 145

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark · 14 Oct 2021 · 201pp · 60,431 words

about the core competencies of our field, no one ever wants to be bad. Or even mediocre. It’s like the business equivalent of the “Lake Wobegon effect,” in which all the children in town are purportedly above average. That’s the phenomenon Frances Frei and Anne Morriss tackled in their book Uncommon

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Kleinert, Jared, 99 Kolber, Petra, 85–86, 88–90 Konnikova, Maria, 194 Kotler, Steven, 165–166 Lader, Linda, 96 Lader, Phil, 96 Lady Gaga, 192 Lake Wobegon effect, 40 Last, Becky, 84–85 Lazarus, Bruce, 74 lean startup methodology, 180–181 learning 20% time and, 92 avoiding doing by, 103 career wave of

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words

-deception: Trivers, 1985; Alexander, 1987a; Wright, 1994a; Lockard & Paulhaus, 1988. Self-deception and Freudian defense mechanisms: Nesse & Lloyd, 1992. 422 Split brains: Gazzaniga, 1992. 422 Lake Wobegon effect: Gilovich, 1991. 422 Beneffectance: Greenwald, 1988; Brown, 1985. Cognitive dissonance: Festinger, 1957. Cognitive dissonance as self-presentation: Aronson, 1980; Baumeister & Tice, 1984. Beneffectance and cognitive

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, Michael, 575, 576, 577, 587 Kubrick, Stanley, 582 !KungSan, 51, 489, 505, 506 Kunstler, William, 54 Kwakiutl, 500 La Rochefoucauld, François, 423 Lachter, Joel, 571 Lake Wobegon effect, 422 Lakoff, George, 311–312, 357, 574, 578, 579, 580, 586 Lamarck, Jean Baptiste, 158, 206, 209 Lamarckian evolution, 158–159, 160, 206–208, 209

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words

the real incomes [and hence the poverty line] are rising.”3 The poor are always with us, but merely by definition, the opposite of the Lake Wobegon effect—it’s not that all the children are above average, but that there is a bottom fifth or tenth or whatever, always, in any distribution

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words

with a rating of 4.6, even though the latter is in danger of being kicked off the Uber platform. One underlying reason for the Lake Wobegon effect is that when we are unhappy at an interaction, many people follow the maxim “if you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all