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Psychology and well-being research

A self-rated ladder of life from 0 to 10

Kilpatrick and Cantril's 1960 Self-anchoring scaling introduced a rating tool in which a person marks where their life stands on a pictured ladder whose top rung is the best possible life they can imagine and whose bottom rung is the worst. Cantril's 1965 book The Pattern of Human Concerns applied this 0-to-10 ladder across many countries to gauge how people evaluate their own lives, and it now serves as the life-evaluation item in the Gallup World Poll (Deaton, 2008). Here the ladder is a measurement scale for subjective well-being, not a banding pattern of DNA on a gel or an interview technique in marketing.[1][2][3]

Unit
One person's placement of their life on a numbered ladder from 0 to 10
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Asked in surveys as the rung a respondent gives for their life now, in the past, and expected in the future

Molecular and cell biology

A ladder of size-sorted DNA fragments on a gel

Wyllie's 1980 report in Nature showed that dying cells switch on an enzyme that cuts their DNA at the regular gaps between nucleosomes, the protein spools that DNA winds around, leaving fragments in whole-number multiples of about 180 base pairs. Separated by size in a gel, these fragments settle into a row of evenly spaced bands resembling the rungs of a ladder, a pattern that became a standard signature of programmed cell death. Here the ladder is a physical banding pattern of cut DNA, not a rating scale for how people judge their lives or a means-end interview method.[4]

Unit
A band on a gel for each whole-number multiple of about 180 base pairs of DNA
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Seen as evenly spaced bands when fragmented DNA is separated by size in gel electrophoresis

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References

  1. Kilpatrick, F. P., & Cantril, H. (1960). Self-anchoring scaling: A measure of individuals' unique reality worlds. Journal of Individual Psychology, 16(2), 158–173.
  2. Cantril, H. (1965). The Pattern of Human Concerns. Rutgers University Press.
  3. Deaton, A. (2008). Income, health, and well-being around the world: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(2), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.22.2.53
  4. Wyllie, A. H. (1980). Glucocorticoid-induced thymocyte apoptosis is associated with endogenous endonuclease activation. Nature, 284(5756), 555–556. https://doi.org/10.1038/284555a0

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