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We quantify intelligence (IQ), academic performance (grades), body weight (pounds or kilograms), running speed, and all sorts of other personal characteristics.  But perhaps more useful than any of those numbers would be a measure of open-mindedness.

We quantify intelligence ([[IQ]]), academic performance (grades), body weight (pounds or kilograms), running speed, and all sorts of other personal characteristics.  But perhaps more useful than any of those numbers would be a measure of open-mindedness.

By "open-mindedness" we mean a genuine willingness to consider the evidence before rejecting an idea.  We do not mean tolerance, or a rejection of absolute truth, or [[skepticism]].  Open-mindedness here means what the dictionary says:  "receptive to arguments or ideas."<ref>http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=open-mindedness</ref>

By "open-mindedness" we mean a genuine willingness to consider the evidence before rejecting an idea.  We do not mean tolerance, or a rejection of absolute truth, or [[skepticism]].  Open-mindedness here means what the dictionary says:  "receptive to arguments or ideas."<ref>http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=open-mindedness</ref>

# Do you resist the possibility that [[Hollywood values]] result in significant harm for those who believe in them, and to innocent bystanders?

# Do you resist the possibility that [[Hollywood values]] result in significant harm for those who believe in them, and to innocent bystanders?

# Do you think it is impossible that increased gun ownership reduces the rate of crime?

# Do you think it is impossible that increased gun ownership reduces the rate of crime?

# When President [[Ronald Reagan]] told Mr. [[Gorbachev]] to tear down the Berlin Wall, would you have thought that it was politically impossible for the Berlin Wall to be torn down?

# When President [[Ronald Reagan]] told Mr. [[Gorbachev]] to tear down the [[Berlin Wall]], would you have thought that it was politically impossible for the Berlin Wall to be torn down?

# Did you think, or still think, that the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] ("Star Wars") is impossible?

# Did you think, or still think, that the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] ("Star Wars") is impossible?

# Do you think that it is impossible that the [[Shroud of Turin]] is authentic?

# Do you think that it is impossible that the [[Shroud of Turin]] is authentic?