Dean's Powerlessness Subscale
“We are just so many cogs in the machinery of life.”
we are just so many cogs in the machinery of life
CITM_81b6b0122d04 · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
we are just so many cogs in the machinery of life
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
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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.
- We are just so many cogs in the machinery of life.
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Powerlessness Scale (Dean)
“We are just so many cogs in the machinery of life.”
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