Perfunctory University Certifications

Official recognition of your relationship with certainty, knowledge, and awareness.

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Welcome to the official certification archive of Perfunctory University, where recognition is immediate, reflection is optional, and absolute certainty remains available to all who need it most.

Below you will find a full set of satirical credentials designed to help individuals, colleagues, managers, friends, and LinkedIn philosophers better understand their current relationship with knowledge, confidence, and self-awareness.

If you are certain which certificate applies to you, you may wish to reconsider.

Peak of Delusion (AQ4)

For those who demonstrate unwavering confidence in a highly selective understanding of the world.

Valley of Doubt Practitioner (AQ6)

For those who have begun to suspect that knowing things may be more complicated than originally imagined.

Confidence Collapse Fellow (AQ7+)

For those navigating the unnerving but productive space between certainty, self-doubt, and constructed awareness.

Honorary Chair of Unwarranted Certainty

A distinguished award for sustained commitment to confidence regardless of evidence, feedback, contradiction, or reflection.

The Dubiety Ranking Framework (DRF)

The Dubiety Ranking Framework maps an individual's relationship with knowledge, certainty, and self-awareness.

Progression is not linear, nor guaranteed. Individuals may locate themselves anywhere on the framework at any time, often without awareness of doing so.

Recognition is optional. Correction is unlikely.

Suggested Uses

  • Download one for yourself.
  • Bestow one upon a colleague.
  • Use them in a workshop as an opening exercise.
  • Frame one in an office where it may cause productive discomfort.
  • Deny the entire framework applies to you.
Perfunctory University remains committed to consistency, confidence, and the preservation of elegantly defended misunderstanding.

Not sure which one applies to you? Coming soon...