Powerlessness Scale (Neal & Groat)
“The world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do about it.”
the world is run by the few people in power and there is not much the little guy can do about it
CITM_79ad0e280e21 · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
the world is run by the few people in power and there is not much the little guy can do about it
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
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- The world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do about it.
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Powerlessness Scale
“The world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do about it.”
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