TONIGHT I traveled to a wondrous place, a fantasy land of sugarplums and fairy tales. Since some of you may never have the opportunity to visit this glorious place, let me tell you about it. It is a land where everyone "will make a fine physician," where people have "excellent interpersonal skills" and "good rapport with their peers." In this land about a tenth of the inhabitants are "among the finest I have ever worked with," a full quarter are "outstanding," and almost all are "in the upper quarter." Everyone is "a pleasure to work with," has "excellent initiative," is . . .
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Richard B. Friedman (1983) studied this question.