Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments

Justin Kruger

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999. DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.221

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful.

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. View paper