It is easy to feel open-minded when the evidence agrees with you. What happens when a credible fact challenges a favourite explanation, a disagreement feels personal or a decision cannot wait? Explore the thinking habits behind the opinions you keep and the ones you revise.
Take the free Open-Minded Thinking Test: 35 original questions exploring 5 separate areas. The questionnaire and basic information are free. Your detailed personal analysis is optional.
Explore the differences behind your answers
This test separates five habits: checking evidence, considering alternatives, revising beliefs, tolerating uncertainty and pausing to reflect. Being open to a claim is different from accepting it. The report compares your responses across those habits without treating a thinking preference as an intelligence score or deciding which opinions you should hold.
Think of an ordinary recent situation rather than the answer you believe you should give. The same overall impression can come from very different choices. Keeping the areas separate allows you to compare the parts of your profile without forcing every answer into one description.
What the 35 questions explore
Checking the evidence
This area explores how you examine support for a claim, including claims you already like. It considers source quality, missing context and the difference between an appealing example and a dependable basis for a conclusion. It does not assume that more searching is always better than a timely decision.
Considering other explanations
This area explores whether you can develop and fairly examine a plausible alternative to your first interpretation. It includes representing another position accurately and distinguishing understanding from agreement. Alternatives matter most when they explain the relevant facts rather than merely sounding different.
Revising a belief
This area explores how you respond when relevant information challenges a conclusion you have already expressed or invested in. It concerns updating proportionately, separating the value of a person from the correctness of a claim and recognising that a revision can be partial rather than a complete reversal.
Working with uncertainty
This area explores your willingness to leave a question partly open when the available information is incomplete. It includes expressing confidence proportionately and making a practical decision without pretending every doubt has disappeared. It is distinct from indecision or a rule that no conclusion can ever be trusted.
Pausing before a conclusion
This area explores whether you interrupt a first reaction long enough to examine the reason behind it. It includes noticing emotional investment, checking whether familiar reasoning fits a new situation and giving a difficult question appropriate attention. Reflection is useful when it clarifies a choice rather than merely extending the same unproductive thought.
A report built around your responses
The detailed report follows your actual selections. Each area receives its own score and interpretation, and every saved answer remains available to review. You can compare what stands out, where your responses are more mixed and which statements explain a difference between two areas.
Reading the explanation alongside the answer review matters. Two people can reach a similar score through different responses. The questionnaire organises the experiences or positions you select; it does not supply the circumstances of your life or decide what other people think.
How to take the test
Think about how you usually respond to information, disagreements and decisions rather than how you think a reasonable person should respond. Choose your agreement with each statement. Consider everyday examples from recent months and read each sentence separately, including those that describe the opposite direction. There are 35 statements and five response options. Allow around 5-8 minutes.
Read each sentence on its own terms. Some statements point in the opposite direction, so selecting the same option automatically will not express a consistent position. If a statement feels difficult, consider one real example and choose the option closest to your usual response or view.
Free basic information and optional detailed analysis
You can complete the questionnaire and read the basic information without making a purchase. If you want to explore the detail, the optional report opens all 5 area scores, the interpretations matched to them, a complete review of your 35 answers and practical reflection prompts.
Your purchase also includes the downloadable personal report and the companion e-book A Better Conversation with Your Beliefs. One optional payment unlocks this additional material. There is no recurring plan.
Understand the scoring
Each area summarises responses to its own statements on a 0-100 scale. The values do not add to 100 and do not tell you what percentage of people are like you. The explanation in the full report shows how points are calculated and how to read the descriptive ranges.
This version uses original Mind Indicator questions. Research in the bibliography provides background for the topic. Published questionnaires and their population norms have not been copied or applied to the new statements.
Questions before you begin
How long does it take?
Allow about 5-8 minutes for 35 statements. You can take the time you need to read them carefully.
Do I need to choose an identity or label first?
No. Answer the statements separately. Your report compares the areas and keeps the underlying responses visible, so an existing label does not need to decide your choices.
What makes the detailed report personal?
Your selections determine the score and interpretation in each area. The full answer review lets you follow the connection from an individual statement to the summary rather than relying only on a general description.
