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{{quote|''"When in doubt, look intelligent!"''|'''Garrison Keillor'''}}
The opposite of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: A stupid character pretends (or tries to pretend) he or she is really smart or otherwise good at something. When done with pure romance in mind, the result is [[Playing Cyrano]]. The stupid characters will either enlist a smart character to feed them lines, or bluff their way through with [[Seemingly
Tend to show up in characters that are so dumb ([[Genre Blind]]), they don't even realize that [[Dumb Is Good]]. Frequently involves the use of [[Nerd Glasses]]. As with [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], [[Hilarity Ensues]] frequently from a stupid confusion or [[Double Entendre]] conversation. This often results in [[Delusions of Eloquence]]. See also [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]].
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** Incidentally, the book ''[http://www.ovalbooks.com/bluff/Music.html The Bluffer's Guide to Music]'' recommends that exact phrase.
* In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Sam the Eagle may constantly seek some culture in the show, but considering he thinks [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]] was a playwright, it's obvious he doesn't know the first thing about culture.
* In ''[[
** It has also been theorized that the Tenth Doctor, who frequently claims himself to be clever, is double-[[Feigning Intelligence]]-[[Obfuscating Stupidity]], or something. (See the Poirot example above.)
** The Doctor has been getting into trouble by pretending to be more knowledgeable than he actually is since ''The Aztecs'' in 1964.
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** [http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ Here] you can get random Postmodernism texts online, and even permanent links <ref>randseed-based, obviously</ref> to the particular essay, if you liked it.
* Any agenda-based statistics study. I.e. if they're paid to prove a causal link exists instead of determine if one does, they will use this.
* There is a psychological term for feigning intelligence. This is called [
** Another similar cognitive bias is the Dunning-Kruger Effect, in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it", or as Cracked.com phrases it: "a short cut in the brain that makes people suck at figuring out they suck." To test the Dunning-Kruger effect, two men named David Dunning and Justin Kruger ran a series of experiments and published the results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in December 1999. What they found was that [[Charles Darwin|“ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”]] Specifically they concluded: (1) Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill. (2) Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others. (3) Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy. (4) If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.
*** Or, more concisely known as [[Kicked Upstairs|"Failing Upwards"]].
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