The Lake Wobegon effect designates either the human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others; in academic sources this is more usually called the above average effect or the better-than-average effect, or the finding that in many educational tests a vast majority of participants achieve results above the norm. It is named for the fictional town of Lake Wobegon from the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, where, according to the presenter, Garrison Keillor, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above averag.......