The effect of Lake Wobegon, or if you yourself are above average
Writer Garrison Keillor created a fictional town called “Lake Wobegon”. A place where, in their words, all women are strong, all men are beautiful and all children are above average. This definition has given its name to a cognitive bias known as the Wobegon Lake effect, which involves overestimaling positive skills and ignoring negative ones. […]
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