Lake Wobegon effectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Lake Wobegon effect (plural Lake Wobegon effects)

1. Illusory superiority, that is, the belief that a majority of people are or can be above average.
   • 2011 March 3, Pauline W. Chen, quoting Daniel P. Sulmasy, “When Optimism Is Unrealistic”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 June 2021:

     “It’s the Lake Wobegon effect,” said Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, senior author and a professor of medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago. “If you have more than 50 percent of patients saying their chances are better than average of avoiding some harm or obtaining some benefit, they are being unrealistically optimistic because you can’t say that most people are above average.”

参考

• Dunning-Kruger effect