Normlessness Scale
“The only thing one can be sure of today is that he can be sure of nothing.”
the only thing one can be sure of today is that he can be sure of nothing
CITM_18cd1d16d4b4 · 1 source instrument · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
the only thing one can be sure of today is that he can be sure of nothing
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
Normative benchmark
No normative benchmark yet for this item. Item-level norms require per-respondent response distributions; they populate from published norms where available and sharpen as anonymized, aggregated deployment responses are contributed (the benchmark flywheel).
Surface variants
The verbatim item text as it appeared in each source instrument. Cross-instrument variation is preserved here; the normalized form above is the dedup key.
- The only thing one can be sure of today is that he can be sure of nothing.
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