HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How How Open-Minded Am I? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Open-mindedness means being willing to consider other points of view and to change your mind when you learn more. Researchers study it as actively open-minded thinking, which is looking for evidence on all sides (Baron, 1985; Stanovich and West, 1997), and as intellectual humility, which is knowing that your own knowledge has limits (Leary and others, 2017). Studies suggest that listening, sincere questions, and real contact with different people can help (Itzchakov and others, 2018; Pettigrew and Tropp, 2006).
This test looks at five areas: admitting you could be wrong, listening to other views, weighing evidence fairly, curiosity about different people, and willingness to change your mind. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe an open habit and half describe the opposite, so you cannot get a high score just by agreeing with everything. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points.
Each area score runs from 0 to 100, and a higher score means more open-mindedness. Your overall score is the average of the five. Scores are read as Low (0 to 33), Medium (34 to 66), or High (67 to 100). These levels show how you answered. They do not compare you with other people.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning about yourself. It is not a diagnosis. Do not use it to hire, judge, rank, or label people, and do not use it to decide whose views are right.
It is based on how you see yourself, and people often see themselves as more open than they are. Asking someone you trust how open you seem can be eye-opening.
Open-mindedness also depends on the topic. You may be very open about food and closed about politics. This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.