Machiavellianism Scale - Mach IV (Version 1)
“Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so.”
never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so
CITM_6f1cd30b37ff · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
Normative benchmark
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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.
- Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so.
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Machiavellianism Scale (Mach IV)
“Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so.”
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