Normlessness Scale
“In order to get elected to public office, a candidate must make promises he [or she] does not intend to keep.”
CITM_5d774287efda · 1 source instrument · 1 surface variant
in order to get elected to public office a candidate must make promises he or she does not intend to keep
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
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).
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.
“In order to get elected to public office, a candidate must make promises he [or she] does not intend to keep.”
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