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I guess most people could say that they're more open-minded than they were before, but that doesn't make them more open-minded than average...
The average for the mainstream? But one of the key points often either stated or implied by contrarians in threads like this is that when it comes to taboo topics such-and-such, our society is narrow-minded indeed and behaves depressingly like a bunch of religious fundamentalists in its handling of dissent, except that it shuns physical violence. If that assertion were true, clearly I've shown that I'm more open-minded than that! (Which is not a great compliment by itself, of course)
We already know that most political discussions on LW fail, so maybe the relevant metric is "more open-minded than average for LW".
Would you like to see Multiheaded's Big Five scores? Other than that, I fail to see how we could test for openness.
I took a quick test of those, here are the results.
(88% openness sounds pretty high to me, and in general I would appear to have quite an outlying personality compared to a guy from the street; probably perfectly ordinary for LW though. Also, I might be motivated in picking answers here, of course.)