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human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. In one survey of high school students, only 2% of the students reported that they were below average in leadership ability. The authors of a study suggest that what they consider the “Lake Wobegon effect” can in some cases negatively affect doctors' treatment advice when, in planning treatment, doctors portray the patients as “above average”.
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The Lake Wobegon effect is a common name for illusory superiority, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities. The characterization that "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average" has been used to describe a real and pervasive
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near Minnesota's geographic center that supposedly does not appear on maps because of the "incompetence of surveyors who mapped out the state in the 19th century": the surveyors worked inward from the state's boundaries, and when they reached Lake Wobegon, had no room left for it on the map. The
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Keillor himself has offered a contrarian opinion on the use of the term, observing that the effect does not actually apply in Lake Wobegon itself. In response to a listener query on the Prairie Home website, he pointed out that, in keeping with their Scandinavian heritage, Wobegonians prefer to
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Most of us have moderate to high self-esteem. Like the mythical residents of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, we need to believe that we are above average. For example, in a survey of a million high school students, only 2 percent stated that they were below average in their leadership ability
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opens with the Simpson family watching public television; a Keilloresque host delivers a monologue about Badger Falls with the closing words, "Where the men are pink-cheeked, the women are robust, and the children are pink-cheeked and
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Keillor has said that people often ask him if it is a real town, and when he replied that it was not, they seemed disappointed because "people want stories to be true". So he began to say it was in "central Minnesota, near
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New Albion's founders decided to settle at Lake Wobegon because they had gotten lost and did not know how to get back to where they had last been. To celebrate this, the colony's motto was
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Jack's Auto Repair, including Jack's School of Thought (correspondence), Warm Car Service, Dry Goods Emporium, Jack's Fountain Lounge, and Jack's Home, "a rest spa for people of all ages"
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sounded Indian to me and Minnesota is full of Indian names. They mask the ethnic heritage of the town, which I wanted to do, since it was half Norwegian, half German." The English word
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in 1985. Described as a small rural town in central Minnesota, the events and adventures of the townspeople provided Keillor with a wealth of humorous and often touching stories.
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The Sidetrack Tap, run by Wally and Evelyn; "The dim little place in the dark where the pinball machine never tilts, the clock is a half-hour slow, and love never dies."
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The monologue would close: "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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by that name, but it is now closed and abandoned, with nothing remaining to identify it but one sign. Olivia is in north-central Renville County.
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returned a location northeast of St. Cloud when Lake Wobegon was entered into its search engine. The programs distributed at live performances of
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Some say that Lake Wobegon is intended to be near Holdingford, Minnesota. This whimsical sign is located at the Holdingford trailhead.
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The typical monologue began: "Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out there on the edge of the
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Keillor often refers to a cafe in downtown Lake Wobegon called the "Chatterbox Cafe". There was a real cafe and gas station in
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parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, and descendants of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants, who attend Lake Wobegon
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Co-op Hardware (formerly Bigger Hammer Hardware, from the joke: "If at first you don't succeed, try using a bigger hammer.")
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Art's Baits & Night o' Rest Motel (Art got sick of people being around, so you can't rent rooms there these days.)
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Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery: "If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get along (pretty good) without it."
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Keillor chronicles a number of bizarre incidents in the fictional town's early history, akin to the events in
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elements into the town, making it more recognizable and therefore more interesting to the rest of the state.
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Sons of Pitches, a men's chorus made up of the Original Main Street's finest in the Home of Sinclair Lewis
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on the car radio when picking up Michael Scott, Andy Bernard and a church kid from the side of the road.
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in 2005 had a map showing Lake Wobegon about two miles north of Holdingford, northwest of St. Cloud.
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World's Largest Pile of Burlap Bags (created by Earl Dickmeyer to fund his and his wife's move to
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Church; Pastor Ingqvist (transferred), Pastor Barbara Ham (Interim Pastor), Pastor Liz (current)
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Keillor has written several semi-autobiographical books about life in Lake Wobegon, including:
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Lake Wobegon Piles ("twin 18-foot-high islands in the center of Lake Wobegon" created in 1956)
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Most of the population are descendants of German immigrants, who are mostly members of the
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in Northfield, Minnesota.) The town's school and amateur sports teams compete against the
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Lake Wobegon was called "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve."
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and Catholic in the 1970s, and the second-most Catholic county in the US (second only to
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Keillor formed most of his ideas for Lake Wobegon while working at public radio station
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as the setting of the recurring segment "News from Lake Wobegon" for the radio program
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takes place every year in May on the trail. Runners leave from Holdingford and run to
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Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
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Responsibility Roman Catholic Church; Father Emil (retired), Father Wilmer (current)
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Keillor identifies the original founders of what became Lake Wobegon as New England
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word meaning "the place where we waited all day in the rain ." Keillor explains, "
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Clifford's (also known as "The Mercantile," which many residents still call it)
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Wally "Old Hard Hands" Bunsen Memorial Field (where The Whippets whip 'em all)
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The fictional settlement Lake Wobegon resembles many small farm towns in the
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Café Boeuf, "Where the elite meet to greet and eat," with maitre d' Maurice.
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Keillor's weekly monologue about Lake Wobegon included recurring elements:
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downplay, rather than overestimate, their capabilities or achievements.
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missionaries, at least one of whom came to convert the Native American
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Post to the Host, A Prairie Home Companion website, October 23, 2008
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Businesses, organizations, and landmarks in Lake Wobegon include:
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Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation
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The Chatterbox Café, "The place to go that's just like home."
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Bertha's Kitty Boutique ("for persons who care about cats")
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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
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The Sons of Knute Temple, Norwegian fraternal organization
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dealer), run by Clint and Clarence Bunsen, local Lutherans
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The Minnesota Rails and Trails project began creating the
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For the lake at Indian Mound Park in Ortona, Florida, see
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The 800 residents (1950 Census: 728) are proud of the
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LuAnne Magendanz's Bon Marché Beauty Parlor and Salon
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(There is actually a 335:, another fictional town referred to in 1683:Fictional populated places in Minnesota 1065: 882:Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 860:Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 1315: 742:Lake Wobegon Loons (five-man football) 502:The fictional town is the home of the 88: 1150:Official City of Holdingford web site 736:Mist County Historical Society Museum 7: 1270:"Are ALL Minnesotans Above Average?" 769:Bob's Bank, in the green mobile home 584:adding citations to reliable sources 806:; a recorded version of this won a 696:, town newspaper run by Harold Star 280:. Stearns County was predominantly 377:lies 20 miles north of St. Cloud. 316:of Mist County, Minnesota, a tiny 14: 1337:Wolf, J. H.; Wolf, K. S. (2013). 1139:A Prairie Home Companion Podcasts 312:Lake Wobegon is portrayed as the 1561:Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon 1237:Keillor, Garrison (2007-09-11). 1218:. 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Index

Ortona, Glades County, Florida
Wobbegong
Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Lake Wobegon Days
Stearns County
Holdingford
St. Rosa
Albany
Freeport
St. Cloud

The Origins of Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Native American
woebegone
prairie

Upper Midwest
Minnesota
North Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Montana
homesteading
Germany
Scandinavia
Holdingford, Minnesota

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