The article was probably not published in an academic journal.
Chris Rackauckas
What you are referring to is the Lake Wobegon or Illusionary Superiority effect. I cannot find the study you requested, but here are two similar studies. One found that 87% of MBA students thought they were above the median, while the other has that 67% of university faculty surveyed thought they were in the top 25%. Another thing you might want to look into is the Dunning-Kruger effect, where those who are incompetent don't know it. The study most likely references one of these three effects.
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/jost/Zuckerman%20&%20Jost%20(2001)%20What%20Makes%20You%20Think%20You're%20So%20Popular1.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he.36919771703/abstract
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