Meaninglessness Scale
“The only thing one can be sure of today is that he [or she] can be sure of nothing.”
the only thing one can be sure of today is that he or she can be sure of nothing
CITM_290f8864e3e4 · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
the only thing one can be sure of today is that he or she 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 [or she] can be sure of nothing.
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Meaninglessness Scale
“The only thing one can be sure of today is that he [or she] can be sure of nothing.”
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