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Talk:Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness (view source)
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, 15:35, June 17, 2012→Does this test measure open-mindedness?: most conservatives would answer "no" to your question "Do you think that it is impossible that the Shroud of Turin is ''fake''?" while most liberals w
If you had a set of questions like that second one (e.g. "Do you think it is impossible that increased gun ownership ''increases'' the rate of crime?" instead of decreases, "Do you think that it is impossible that the Shroud of Turin is ''fake''?" instead of authentic) you would have a questionnaire that does not find conservatives to be open-minded, but the reverse, that conservatives are closed-minded. --[[User:Thal|Thal]] 11:21, 17 June 2012 (EDT)
If you had a set of questions like that second one (e.g. "Do you think it is impossible that increased gun ownership ''increases'' the rate of crime?" instead of decreases, "Do you think that it is impossible that the Shroud of Turin is ''fake''?" instead of authentic) you would have a questionnaire that does not find conservatives to be open-minded, but the reverse, that conservatives are closed-minded. --[[User:Thal|Thal]] 11:21, 17 June 2012 (EDT)
:The questions could be reversed, but most conservatives would pass it. For example, most conservatives would answer "no" to your question "Do you think that it is impossible that the [[Shroud of Turin]] is ''fake''?" while most liberals would answer "yes" to the reverse question, "Do you think that it is impossible that the [[Shroud of Turin]] is authentic?"--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 11:35, 17 June 2012 (EDT)