Survey Results

Race categories: preserve, revise, or eliminate?

Population

AOS

Region

for

Exclude answers beyond respondent's first 50

Include skip/insufficiently familiar answers

944 respondents

What the percentages mean: "Accept or lean toward P: 50% (40%)" means that 50% of respondents endorsed this answer inclusively (including multiple-answer endorsements) and 40% endorsed this answer exclusively (excluding multiple-answer endorsements).

These results should not be used for comparison to 2009 results due to different populations and parameters. For meaningful longitudinal comparisons, see the longitudinal analysis section.

Collapse accept and lean towards

Accept or lean towards:
preserve

8.16% (7.31%)

Reject or lean against:
preserve

1.17% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards:
revise

32.31% (30.40%)

Reject or lean against:
revise

0.11% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards:
eliminate

40.36% (39.19%)

Reject or lean against:
eliminate

0.64% (0.00%)

Accept a combination of views

2.33%

Accept an alternative view

2.22%

The question is too unclear to answer

6.57%

There is no fact of the matter

0.64%

Agnostic/undecided

10.38%

Other

0.95%

N = 944, excluding skipped & insufficiently familiar (237 respondents)

Most popular option combinations

Options	Number of responses	% of responses
Accept or lean towards: revise Accept or lean towards: eliminate	8	0.85%
Accept or lean towards: revise	4	0.42%
Accept or lean towards: preserve Accept or lean towards: revise	4	0.42%
Accept or lean towards: preserve Accept or lean towards: eliminate	2	0.21%
Accept or lean towards: preserve Accept or lean towards: revise Accept or lean towards: eliminate	1	0.11%

Alternative Views

25 target respondents indicated that they accept or lean toward an alternative view. The words used in their responses cluster as follows. These results are not filtered by AOS, region, etc.

SOCI (4): social (3) sociopolitical (1)
CONT (4): context (2) contingent (1) contextualism (1)
PURP (3): purposes (2) purpose (1)
NOTI (3): notion (2) notions (1)
BIOL (3): biologically (2) biological (1)

Longitudinal comparison to 2009 survey

This question was not in the 2009 survey

Strongest correlations with main questions (target population)

r: 0.42	Gender categories: revise
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	215	45
Reject	165	261

n: 686

p < 0.0001

r: 0.4	Gender categories: preserve
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	18
Reject	106	519

n: 686

p < 0.0001

r: 0.38	Gender categories: eliminate
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	106	206
Reject	17	358

n: 687

p < 0.0001

r: 0.35	Race: unreal
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	119	230
Reject	26	382

n: 757

p < 0.0001

r: 0.32	Race: biological
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	32
Reject	106	593

n: 770

p < 0.0001

r: -0.28	Gender categories: revise
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	141	170
Reject	239	136

n: 686

p < 0.0001

r: -0.27	Race: unreal
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	257
Reject	127	357

n: 759

p < 0.0001

r: -0.27	Gender categories: eliminate
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	243
Reject	105	321

n: 686

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Race: biological
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	316
Reject	112	309

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Race: social
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	236	48
Reject	317	174

n: 775

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Politics: capitalism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	24
Reject	184	393

n: 629

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	31
Reject	84	372

n: 498

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Gender: social
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	231	49
Reject	317	158

n: 755

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	32
Reject	69	459

n: 575

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	210
Reject	32	285

n: 586

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Meaning of life: objective
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	25
Reject	217	393

n: 670

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Properties: transcendent universals
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	27
Reject	85	343

n: 465

p: 0.0002

r: 0.17	Concepts: nativism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	19
Reject	136	320

n: 498

p: 0.0002

r: -0.17	Gender: social
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	35
Reject	507	172

n: 752

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Gender categories: preserve
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	226
Reject	115	311

n: 685

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Capital punishment: permissible
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	37
Reject	109	535

n: 700

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Race: social
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	234	117
Reject	317	105

n: 773

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Gender categories: revise
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	43
Reject	362	263

n: 685

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Properties: transcendent universals
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	175
Reject	62	195

n: 466

p: 0.001

r: 0.15	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	189
Reject	15	359

n: 580

p: 0.0002

r: 0.15	Propositions: simple entities
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	33
Reject	31	412

n: 481

p: 0.001

r: -0.15	Abortion: permissible
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	17
Reject	548	98

n: 704

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Propositions: structured entities
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	87	139
Reject	114	143

n: 483

p: 0.0016

r: 0.14	Belief or credence: credence
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	107
Reject	91	213

n: 478

p: 0.0019

r: 0.14	Properties: transcendent universals
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	133
Reject	55	236

n: 465

p: 0.0024

r: 0.14	Consciousness: dualism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	31
Reject	129	417

n: 592

p: 0.0007

r: -0.14	Experience machine: yes
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	66
Reject	112	568

n: 752

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Personal identity: psychological view
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	40
Reject	312	281

n: 657

p: 0.0004

r: 0.14	Gender: biological
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	36
Reject	204	467

n: 743

p: 0.0002

r: -0.14	Semantic content: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	117	113
Reject	153	102

n: 485

p: 0.0023

r: 0.14	Aesthetic value: objective
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	40	21
Reject	317	350

n: 728

p: 0.0002

r: -0.14	Morality: constructivism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	50
Reject	147	438

n: 640

p: 0.0005

r: 0.14	Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	37	175
Reject	29	333

n: 574

p: 0.001

r: -0.14	Philosophical knowledge: a little
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	212
Reject	142	224

n: 670

p: 0.0004

r: 0.14	Propositions: structured entities
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	84	84
Reject	117	199

n: 484

p: 0.0028

r: 0.13	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	28
Reject	143	355

n: 542

p: 0.0016

r: 0.13	Logic: classical
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	10
Reject	346	204

n: 598

p: 0.0011

r: 0.13	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	170	82
Reject	219	206

n: 677

p: 0.0005

r: 0.13	True contradictions: impossible
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	8
Reject	389	141

n: 579

p: 0.0014

r: -0.13	True contradictions: actual
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	44
Reject	74	456

n: 579

p: 0.0015

r: 0.13	Free will: compatibilism
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	205	86
Reject	295	203

n: 789

p: 0.0002

r: 0.13	Morality: non-naturalism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	36
Reject	151	432

n: 638

p: 0.001

r: 0.13	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	152
Reject	63	192

n: 485

p: 0.0043

r: 0.13	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	147	141
Reject	214	304

n: 806

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Temporal ontology: presentism
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	147
Reject	69	225

n: 464

p: 0.0055

r: -0.13	Free will: compatibilism
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	209	140
Reject	291	149

n: 789

p: 0.0003

r: 0.13	Normative concepts: fit
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	165
Reject	23	314

n: 522

p: 0.0037

r: 0.13	Sleeping beauty: one-third
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	10
Reject	76	166

n: 257

p: 0.0426

r: -0.13	Meaning of life: subjective
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	47
Reject	254	356

n: 670

p: 0.0011

r: 0.12	Philosophical knowledge: a little
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	31
Reject	206	405

n: 669

p: 0.0012

r: 0.12	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	49	28
Reject	364	363

n: 804

p: 0.0005

r: -0.12	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	58	192
Reject	146	279

n: 675

p: 0.0016

r: 0.12	Meaning of life: subjective
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	141
Reject	158	263

n: 673

p: 0.0016

r: -0.12	Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	85	125
Reject	103	127

n: 440

p: 0.0112

r: 0.12	Personal identity: further-fact view
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	45
Reject	98	492

n: 654

p: 0.002

r: 0.12	Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	19
Reject	43	297

n: 366

p: 0.0221

r: -0.12	Extended mind: yes
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	29
Reject	311	233

n: 597

p: 0.0034

r: 0.12	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	71	99
Reject	89	241

n: 500

p: 0.0075

r: -0.12	Race: unreal
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	62
Reject	138	551

n: 756

p: 0.0012

r: -0.12	Propositional attitudes: representational
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	104	127
Reject	155	127

n: 513

p: 0.0079

r: -0.12	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	29
Reject	364	254

n: 680

p: 0.0023

r: -0.12	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	251
Reject	25	297

n: 580

p: 0.0049

r: 0.11	Temporal ontology: presentism
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	48	151
Reject	44	221

n: 464

p: 0.0132

r: 0.11	Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	18
Reject	171	233

n: 439

p: 0.0178

r: 0.11	Well-being: objective list
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	12
Reject	308	231

n: 586

p: 0.0068

r: -0.11	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	125	162
Reject	292	215

n: 794

p: 0.0017

r: 0.11	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	43
Reject	95	514

n: 665

p: 0.0044

r: 0.11	Gender: unreal
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	287
Reject	10	378

n: 703

p: 0.0034

r: 0.11	Experience machine: yes
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	259
Reject	47	377

n: 753

p: 0.0026

r: 0.11	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	37	14
Reject	350	197

n: 598

p: 0.0074

r: 0.11	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	207	81
Reject	327	191

n: 806

p: 0.0019

r: 0.11	Values in science: necessarily value-free
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	40
Reject	104	475

n: 632

p: 0.006

r: 0.11	Semantic content: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	65
Reject	164	151

n: 485

p: 0.0167

r: -0.11	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	31
Reject	315	297

n: 669

p: 0.0052

r: -0.11	Well-being: objective list
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	139	130
Reject	205	114

n: 588

p: 0.009

r: 0.11	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	36
Reject	35	409

n: 485

p: 0.0199

r: 0.11	Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	194	110
Reject	208	158

n: 670

p: 0.0063

r: -0.1	Belief or credence: belief
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	49	125
Reject	109	195

n: 478

p: 0.022

r: 0.1	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	104
Reject	88	197

n: 455

p: 0.0256

r: -0.1	Possible worlds: nonexistent
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	58	179
Reject	142	286

n: 665

p: 0.0069

r: 0.1	Arguments for theism: design
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	36
Reject	105	413

n: 566

p: 0.0129

r: -0.1	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	178
Reject	103	205

n: 542

p: 0.0159

r: -0.1	Time: A-theory
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	140
Reject	113	201

n: 504

p: 0.0203

r: 0.1	Causation: primitive
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	34
Reject	110	396

n: 552

p: 0.0174

r: 0.1	Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	191
Reject	15	353

n: 573

p: 0.017

r: -0.1	Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	30
Reject	374	237

n: 669

p: 0.0099

r: -0.1	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	156
Reject	87	184

n: 499

p: 0.0264

r: -0.1	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	62
Reject	207	510

n: 793

p: 0.0052

r: -0.1	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	39
Reject	496	231

n: 804

p: 0.0049

r: 0.1	Normative concepts: ought
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	37
Reject	70	403

n: 520

p: 0.024

r: 0.1	Perceptual experience: qualia theory
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	165
Reject	62	307

n: 575

p: 0.018

r: -0.1	Laws of nature: Humean
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	53
Reject	223	430

n: 722

p: 0.0087

r: -0.1	Normative concepts: value
Race categories: preserve	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	30
Reject	207	267

n: 521

p: 0.0268

r: -0.1	Abstract objects: Platonism
Race categories: eliminate	Accept	Reject
Accept	122	197
Reject	178	215

n: 712

p: 0.0098

r: 0.1	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Race categories: revise	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	106
Reject	163	237

n: 634

p: 0.0148

Strongest correlations with demographic questions (target population)

r: -0.16	Region of nationality: Europe
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	37	247
Reject	121	389

n: 794

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Region of nationality: Europe
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	97	268
Reject	61	368

n: 794

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Region of affiliation: Europe
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	29	270
Reject	102	433

n: 834

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Region of affiliation: Europe
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	82	294
Reject	49	408

n: 833

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Philosopher: Hegel
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	15	291
Reject	3	333

n: 642

p: 0.0015

r: 0.11	Tradition: Analytic
Race categories: preserve	Yes	No
Accept	67	7
Reject	642	106

n: 822

p: 0.001

r: -0.11	Region of PhD: Europe
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	15	212
Reject	43	335

n: 605

p: 0.0086

r: 0.1	Region of PhD: Oceania
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	16	211
Reject	13	365

n: 605

p: 0.0168

r: 0.1	Region of nationality: United States
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	159	125
Reject	268	242

n: 794

p: 0.0071

r: 0.09	Other demographics: YOB
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	136	144
Reject	232	277

n: 789

p: 0.0101

r: -0.09	Region of PhD: Oceania
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	7	254
Reject	22	321

n: 604

p: 0.0249

r: 0.09	Region of affiliation: United States
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	185	114
Reject	297	238

n: 834

p: 0.0089

r: -0.09	Region of nationality: United States
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	176	189
Reject	250	179

n: 794

p: 0.0111

r: 0.09	Other demographics: YOB
Race categories: preserve	Yes	No
Accept	34	35
Reject	334	384

n: 787

p: 0.012

r: 0.09	Region of PhD: Europe
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	34	227
Reject	24	319

n: 604

p: 0.0319

r: -0.09	Tradition: Other tradition
Race categories: preserve	Yes	No
Accept	6	68
Reject	68	680

n: 822

p: 0.0124

r: -0.08	AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	21	281
Reject	53	477

n: 832

p: 0.0159

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Descartes
Race categories: preserve	Yes	No
Accept	6	51
Reject	24	560

n: 641

p: 0.0354

r: 0.08	Region of affiliation: Oceania
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	21	278
Reject	27	508

n: 834

p: 0.0187

r: -0.08	Region of affiliation: United States
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	199	177
Reject	283	174

n: 833

p: 0.0196

r: -0.08	Region of nationality: Europe
Race categories: preserve	Yes	No
Accept	12	57
Reject	146	578

n: 793

p: 0.0229

r: 0.08	Region of nationality: Oceania
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	19	265
Reject	20	490

n: 794

p: 0.0229

r: -0.08	Other demographics: YOB
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	156	204
Reject	212	216

n: 788

p: 0.0274

r: 0.08	Region of affiliation: Latin America
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	9	367
Reject	4	453

n: 833

p: 0.0234

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Kant
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	38	189
Reject	53	364

n: 644

p: 0.0499

r: 0.08	AOS: Normative Ethics
Race categories: revise	Yes	No
Accept	69	233
Reject	105	425

n: 832

p: 0.0282

r: -0.07	Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	29	336
Reject	50	379

n: 794

p: 0.0441

r: -0.07	AOS: Normative Ethics
Race categories: eliminate	Yes	No
Accept	65	310
Reject	108	348

n: 831

p: 0.0457