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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Today's Grade-Inflated, Lake Wobegon World; Letter Grade of A Now Most
Common College Grade
In 1960, the average undergraduate grade awarded in the College of Liberal
Arts at the University of Minnesota was 2.27 on a four-point scale. In
other words, the average letter grade at the University of Minnesota in the
early 1960s was about a C+, and that was consistent with average grades at
other colleges and universities in that era. In fact, that average grade of
C+ (2.30-2.35 on a 4-point scale)... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2988 | 2 今天有个女id跟我说她见了几个date, 都是身高不够168的, 听的我老很难过.
其实长的个矮有什么错, 都是这可恶的社会, 到处靠外表来评价人.
我老是真心希望安得广厦千万间, 给每个人一个老婆/一个汉. 虽然lake wobegon
不是这个用法, 但这样的地方的确不错呀, "all the women are strong, all
the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." |
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发帖数: 4445 | 3 First impressed by Keillor by a talk he gave on PBS, which kept me laughing
for an hour. Then I bought the book, and finished most of it over a trip --
mostly during the night stuck at Denver airport. The book gave a humorous
depiction of the lifestyle and mores in the fictitious town called Lake
Wobegon, Minnesota.
Comment: Two attitudes seem to be universal: cosmopolitanism in cities, and
conservatism in the countryside. The American version of conservatism is not
that different from t |
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发帖数: 2293 | 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon
The Lake Wobegon effect
Main article: Illusory superiority
The characterization of the fictional location, where "all the women are
strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average
," has been used to describe a real and pervasive human tendency to
overestimate one’s achievements and capabilities in relation to others. The
Lake Wobegon effect, where all or nearly all of a group claim to be above
average, has been observed amon |
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发帖数: 42116 | 7 Social norms[edit]
Playwright and corporate communications consultant Syl Jones suggested that
Minnesota nice is not entirely about being "nice" but is more about keeping
up appearances, maintaining the social order, and keeping people in their
place. He relates these social norms to the literary work of Danish-
Norwegian novelist Aksel Sandemose, the fictional Janteloven (Law of Jante),
and more generally, Scandinavian culture.[2] Garrison Keillor's A Prairie
Home Companion discusses "Wobegonic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2293 | 8 “要求每个人至少达到平均水平”
原来是 Univ of Lake Wobegon，呵呵。 |
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发帖数: 2293 | 9 每个周末NPR的Praire Home Companion都讲Lake Wobegon，特幽默，强烈推荐。 |
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发帖数: 6292 | 10 Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
Justin Kruger and David Dunning, Cornell University
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1999, Vol. 77, No. 6. ] 121-1134
杜宁（Dunning）与克鲁格（Kruger）两个人都是康奈尔大学的教授。1999年12月，
他们两个合作的论文《无能与无知：对自身无能的认知困难如何导致无端自负》发表在
《人格与社会心理学杂志》上。这篇论文最终竟然获得了2000年度“搞怪诺贝尔”（lg
Nobel Prize）的心理学奖——然而这并不影响这篇论文的严肃性；2006年另外一个学
者凯瑟琳柏森（Katherine A. Burson）在同一份杂志上在此发表后继研究论文。
事实上杜宁与克鲁格的观察并非什么新发现，达尔文就说过... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11227 | 11 发信人： furtherland(晴天), 信区： Working
标题： 为什么工资不能告诉别人?
发信站： BBS未名空间站(Tue Sep 19 13:50:49 2017,GMT)
不管是在BAT，还是在四大门户，又或者是在创业公司，大家都会发现一个墨守成规的
事情，就是不要去问别人的薪资是多少钱，有的公司甚至会明文禁止员工在一起谈论个
人薪水情况。当然有些国有企业的可能不存在这样的事。但对于在私营企业、规模相对
较小的公司“工资不告诉别人”已经成了每个员工默守的规矩。本来工资就应该透明，
但现在成了“秘密”，到底这其中有什么隐情呢？
大众员工解释版
其实有关具体员工的个人薪水情况，是需要一定程度上保密的，比如要是让你知道比你
早来五年的老前辈和上司才拿这么点钱，原来五年甚至十年涨幅也就这么点，你在公司
加班加点、努力向上的积极性不会减少吗？又或者你在这个公司干了很长时间，结果一
个新来的员工工资比你的还高，你的心里能平衡吗？2015年4月，有国外媒体与领英合
作发起了一项薪酬调查，调查了1000名美国在职员工。结果显示，有73%的人表示，对
于同领导之外的其他同事讨论工资问题... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 28450 | 12 从心理学角度而言，这个应该是Lake Wobegon effect。打哥比方，正在街头闲逛等开
球，突然发下一个靓女款款从身边走过，于是心里想这个靓女肯定干不上了。能干的可
能，微乎其微；干不上，意料之中，真干上了，意外大喜。所以这个心态比较好。可惜
昨天一冲动，下了大注。 |
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发帖数: 1284 | 13 很多节目都有Podcast吧。
有一段时间我非常迷Garrison Keillor的News from Lake Wobegon，每周都听，还把以
前的Podcast都下载了反复听，挺有意思的。 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 14 那个不是广播剧啊，那个是综艺性的，很多skit，例如那个guy noir和Lake Wobegon生
活。
广播剧是radio drama，三十年代特别多，电视剧一样的，就是只有音频……
A Prairie Home Companion
PBS |
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发帖数: 6568 | 15 哈哈，对美国人来说应该是满震惊的。他们一般来说的印象就是比较差的也得是
average。就象prairie home companion 里讲的，"Well, that's the news from Lake
Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and
all the children are above average." |
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发帖数: 3386 | 18 广厦万间,卧眠七尺
兄台不要惆怅了
用十年等一个慧眼识珠的人
和她过50年 |
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发帖数: 2988 | 19 鹊桥是lake wobegon, 所有女id都是good lookingn, 所有男id都strong, 所有
萝莉都 above average. |
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发帖数: 92 | 20 Support. We need new topic to talk about. Will go for this book tonight. |
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发帖数: 1284 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 kim 俱乐部 】
发信人: ghxiao (bridgelover), 信区: kim
标 题: 问一个podcast的问题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Mar 19 09:39:47 2010, 美东)
从去年开始迷上了在ipod上听Garrison Killor的signature monologue: News from Lake Wobegon。可是在Itunes上面只有最近几集的podcast，怎么也找不到前几年的episodes。去Prairie Home Companion的网站上倒是可以找到老文件，但都是mp3格式的，输入到ipod后这些文件都跑到Music category里面去了，而不在Podcast这个category里面，而我又不想把这个show和音乐放在一起，很不爽。有人知道怎么弄么？ |
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发帖数: 1538 | 23 今天继续我的PD系列。这次是另一个PD，也是AMG， 新英格兰地区的大学医院PD，他的
观点和前一个PD基本类似。只选择IMG有关的部分。
Package中最重要的部分
For IMG candidates, the Dean's letter is completely useless. USMLE scores
are almost always used as a first cut. US clinical experience is highly
valued, and an LOR from a US experience is vital. Observerships probably
have some value, but much less so than a true rotation with primary
responsibility for patient care. Visa status should have no effect by law,
but probably does -- not needing a visa at all is pro... 阅读全帖 |
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