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To support someone with the intent to make them feel better about doing poorly when the result will be causing them to be complacent E.g. Telling someone that since the highest score in the class was 60%, getting 50% is really quite good. Thus causing them to study less, when in actuality the entire class is failing. Also known as the Dinkleheim effect. For more context on the name, Eric Dinkleheim was a psychologist of great renown who often caused downturns in his patients lives in his attempts to help them. It should be noted that Dinkleheim wasn’t licensed. No one knew much about Dinkleheim’s personal life but he is believed to have relation to a mr. Dinkleheim of German heritage who is a lvl 20 drwarf wizard
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