Summary —Three hypotheses were tested and confirmed concerning the effect of belief centrality on the prediction of classroom grades from a student's level of closed-mindedness. Reanalyzing the Rokeach-Norrell data, it was observed that major area, sex, and the two combined were determinative of the predictive efficiency of dogmatism scores.
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