Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 2 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 2 successful. The earliest on record is from 2021.
Replications
- Both better and worse than others depending on difficulty: Replication and extensions of Kruger's (1999) above and below average effects, Korbmacher} et al. (2021). Outcome recorded: successful.
We replicated and extended the findings in Reference Kruger's (1999) Study 1. Both the replication and the extension results provide strong support for above- and below-average effects, depending on difficulty.
Outcome read from the full text. View paper - Both better and worse than others depending on difficulty: Replication and extensions of Kruger's (1999) above and below average effects, Korbmacher et al. (2022). Outcome recorded: successful.
We conducted a suc- cessful pre-registered replication of Kruger's (1999) Study 1, the first demonstration of the core phenomenon (N = 756, US MTurk workers).
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Cite this record
Kruger, J. (1999). Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(2), 221–232. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.221
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