The open-ended responses of male and female college students to 11 items of the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale were content analyzed. Three statistically reliable sex differences were found. Since these could have occurred by chance, the Dogmatism Scale is hypothesized to measure the same factors in both sexes.
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