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Talk:Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness (view source)
Revision as of 05:43, November 25, 2011
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::What do you mean by qualifications? Can you give me an example? My answers are quite simply skeptical. I answer with a skeptical and logical mindset. The words "Do you resist admitting" imply that the following statement is absolutely true. Infact, you admitted as much further up. By saying that a proposition is absolutely true, you are not being open-minded. Open-mindedness requires that you might possibly be wrong. That is even a large part of this questionnaire. By having questions that are not open-minded, the open-mindedness test becomes invalid.
::What do you mean by qualifications? Can you give me an example? My answers are quite simply skeptical. I answer with a skeptical and logical mindset. The words "Do you resist admitting" imply that the following statement is absolutely true. Infact, you admitted as much further up. By saying that a proposition is absolutely true, you are not being open-minded. Open-mindedness requires that you might possibly be wrong. That is even a large part of this questionnaire. By having questions that are not open-minded, the open-mindedness test becomes invalid.
== The Questions Slanted Liberally ==
Just for fun:
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1. Do you resist admitting the possibility that a liberal approach to education is far more effective for students than a conservative one?
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2. If it were proved to your satisfaction that some idea you've been using to bolster a political argument was false, would you keep using that idea in your argument?
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3. Do you resist admitting that something you accepted for over a decade is, in fact, completely false?
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4. Do you resist the possibility that conservative values result in significant harm for those who believe in them, and to innocent bystanders?
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5. Do you think it is impossible that decreased gun ownership reduces the rate of crime?
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6. When President Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, did you think that it was possible for the Berlin Wall to be torn down?
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7. Did you think, or still think, that the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") is possible?
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8. Do you think that it is impossible that the Shroud of Turin is inauthentic?
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9. Do you think that there must be a purely religious-based explanation (such as creationism) for remarkable homing and migration behavior of birds and butterflies?
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10. Do you think that it is impossible for the speed of light to have stayed the same in the past?
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11. Do you think that it is possible to measure openmindedness?
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12. Do you think that evolution must not have occurred?
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13. Do you think that is possible for the power of 2 in Newtonian gravity, whereby the gravitational force is proportional to 1/r2, to be more precise with an exponent that is slightly different from 2, such as a gravitational force proportional to 1/r2.00000001?
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14. Do you believe that some things taught to you in school are completely false, and even known to be false by some responsible for the material?
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15. Do you believe that some widely required theories of science may actually impede the progress of science?
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16. Do you believe that the imposition of socialism and same-sex marriage on a nation could harm its competitiveness at international events like the Olympics?
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17. Do you refuse to consider the possibility that "experts" may have the answers, and that the best of the public may not have valuable insights to which experts are blind?
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18. Do you think that people should read the Bible regularly?
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19. Do you believe that because the Earth's orbit and rotation are what they are now, they are not guaranteed to remain stable for billions of years?
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Same qualifications as the conservative biased version. What is your score?