Survey Results

Correlations

Social and Political Philosophy

Note: For philosophical questions with only two main suggested answers, only one answer (randomly selected) can be looked up for correlations.

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Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: -0.21
Political philosophy: communitarianism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 50 180
No 358 709
n: 1297
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 156 76
No 505 563
n: 1300
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Normative ethics: deontology
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 139 111
No 403 819
n: 1472
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 67
No 45 581
n: 702
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Propositions: acts
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 57
No 55 585
n: 707
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Morality: constructivism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 59 92
No 151 638
n: 940
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Justification: coherentism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 45 60
No 178 542
n: 825
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 125 135
No 815 524
n: 1599
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Propositions: simple entities
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 7 60
No 47 594
n: 708
p: 0.0006
r: -0.12
Wittgenstein: early
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 19 103
No 212 530
n: 864
p: 0.0004
r: 0.12
Gender: social
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 207 53
No 812 364
n: 1436
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
Propositional attitudes: representational
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 23 53
No 339 299
n: 714
p: 0.0021
r: -0.11
Abstract objects: Platonism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 57 158
No 554 644
n: 1413
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Political philosophy: libertarianism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 38 193
No 164 901
n: 1296
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Extended mind: yes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 74 38
No 408 359
n: 879
p: 0.0013
r: 0.11
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 94 162
No 297 953
n: 1506
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
Grounds of intentionality: inferential
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 50
No 57 529
n: 646
p: 0.008
r: 0.1
Truth: epistemic
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 42 192
No 119 1076
n: 1429
p < 0.0001
r: -0.1
Temporal ontology: eternalism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 15 46
No 276 317
n: 654
p: 0.0096
r: -0.1
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 17 42
No 249 310
n: 618
p: 0.0126
r: 0.1
Grounds of intentionality: phenomenal
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 51
No 79 506
n: 646
p: 0.0126
r: 0.1
Propositions: sets
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 59
No 59 581
n: 707
p: 0.0093
r: 0.1
True contradictions: actual
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 24 80
No 90 666
n: 860
p: 0.0042
r: -0.1
Morality: naturalist realism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 38 113
No 281 510
n: 942
p: 0.0028
r: -0.1
Perceptual experience: representationalism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 41 97
No 475 507
n: 1120
p: 0.0014
r: 0.09
Race: social
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 202 54
No 821 375
n: 1452
p: 0.0004
r: 0.09
Temporal ontology: growing block
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 15 46
No 108 483
n: 652
p: 0.0192
r: 0.09
Theory of reference: deflationary
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 20 61
No 110 562
n: 753
p: 0.0122
r: 0.09
Arguments for theism: pragmatic
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 31 86
No 112 595
n: 824
p: 0.009
r: -0.09
Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 11 50
No 236 351
n: 648
p: 0.0215
r: 0.09
Spacetime: relationism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 27 16
No 253 278
n: 574
p: 0.0319
r: 0.09
Moral principles: moral generalism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 104 51
No 424 332
n: 911
p: 0.0082
r: -0.09
Time travel: metaphysically possible
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 39 76
No 352 404
n: 871
p: 0.0108
r: -0.08
True contradictions: impossible
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 67 37
No 581 175
n: 860
p: 0.0128
r: -0.08
Footbridge: push
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 52 180
No 319 915
n: 1466
p: 0.0012
r: 0.08
Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 11 127
No 52 919
n: 1109
p: 0.0049
r: 0.08
Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 28 55
No 166 476
n: 725
p: 0.0236
r: 0.08
Consciousness: eliminativism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 6 107
No 40 735
n: 888
p: 0.0124
r: 0.08
Perceptual experience: qualia theory
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 27 111
No 167 808
n: 1113
p: 0.0051
r: 0.08
Analysis of knowledge: justified true belief
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 39 80
No 199 627
n: 945
p: 0.0104
r: 0.08
Practical reason: Kantian
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 43 98
No 122 532
n: 795
p: 0.0211
r: 0.08
Metaontology: deflationary realism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 22 37
No 171 386
n: 616
p: 0.0431
r: -0.08
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 116 148
No 707 630
n: 1601
p: 0.0017
r: 0.08
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 76 61
No 342 428
n: 907
p: 0.0192
r: -0.08
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 16 89
No 218 501
n: 824
p: 0.0284
r: -0.08
Values in science: necessarily value-free
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 17 120
No 150 620
n: 907
p: 0.0226
r: 0.07
Knowledge claims: contextualism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 138 63
No 648 486
n: 1335
p: 0.0064
r: -0.07
Knowledge claims: invariantism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 39 162
No 328 803
n: 1332
p: 0.0067
r: 0.07
Consciousness: panpsychism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 103
No 67 710
n: 889
p: 0.0272
r: 0.07
Ought implies can: yes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 117 47
No 553 293
n: 1010
p: 0.0202
r: -0.07
Gender: unreal
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 234
No 59 1045
n: 1348
p: 0.0077
r: -0.07
Other minds: worms
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 29 122
No 230 650
n: 1031
p: 0.0247
r: -0.07
Science: scientific realism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 173 63
No 1016 257
n: 1509
p: 0.0069
r: 0.07
Well-being: objective list
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 103 42
No 405 296
n: 846
p: 0.0434
r: 0.07
Teletransporter: survival
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 105 103
No 440 661
n: 1309
p: 0.0126
r: -0.07
Gender: biological
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 75 180
No 392 776
n: 1423
p: 0.0096
r: -0.07
Race: biological
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 44 212
No 257 938
n: 1451
p: 0.0094
r: 0.07
Principle of sufficient reason: true
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 51 67
No 273 481
n: 872
p: 0.0454
r: 0.07
Possible worlds: nonexistent
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 48 78
No 266 588
n: 980
p: 0.036
r: -0.07
Race: unreal
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 41 209
No 202 970
n: 1422
p: 0.0129
r: 0.06
Time: A-theory
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 37 69
No 259 592
n: 957
p: 0.0467
r: 0.06
Meaning of life: subjective
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 115 118
No 443 676
n: 1352
p: 0.0225
r: 0.06
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 25 113
No 172 804
n: 1114
p: 0.0395
r: -0.06
Other minds: flies
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 44 107
No 326 554
n: 1031
p: 0.0491
r: -0.06
A priori knowledge: yes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 196 74
No 1047 291
n: 1608
p: 0.0179
r: -0.06
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 141 100
No 897 429
n: 1567
p: 0.0214
r: -0.06
God: theism
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 36 225
No 289 1054
n: 1604
p: 0.0207
r: 0.06
Aim of philosophy: wisdom
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 110 148
No 421 835
n: 1514
p: 0.0307
r: 0.06
Vagueness: epistemic
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 60 123
No 280 838
n: 1301
p: 0.0456
r: -0.05
Truth: correspondence
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 119 115
No 708 491
n: 1433
p: 0.0402
r: -0.05
Experience machine: yes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 32 230
No 185 1052
n: 1499
p: 0.0418
r: 0.05
Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 89 176
No 365 973
n: 1603
p: 0.0382

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.4
Philosopher: Rawls
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 57 167
No 14 1019
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Philosopher: Marx
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 29 195
No 23 1010
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Philosopher: Mill
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 32 192
No 35 998
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosopher: Arendt
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 12 212
No 6 1027
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosopher: Foucault
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 15 209
No 11 1022
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Rousseau
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 6 218
No 1 1032
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Hobbes
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 10 214
No 6 1027
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Tradition: Analytic
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 206 71
No 1199 205
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Philosopher: Beauvoir
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 12 212
No 14 1019
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.09
Philosopher: Kant
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 49 175
No 136 897
n: 1257
p: 0.0008
r: 0.09
Tradition: Continental
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 32 245
No 80 1324
n: 1681
p: 0.0004
r: -0.08
Gender: male
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 203 79
No 1129 273
n: 1684
p: 0.0013
r: 0.08
Gender: other
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 5 277
No 4 1398
n: 1684
p: 0.0018
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Quine
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 9 215
No 98 935
n: 1257
p: 0.0078
r: 0.07
Region of PhD: Oceania
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 15 167
No 40 970
n: 1192
p: 0.0112
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Locke
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 11 213
No 22 1011
n: 1257
p: 0.0183
r: 0.07
Gender: female
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 74 208
No 269 1133
n: 1684
p: 0.0073
r: 0.06
Tradition: Other tradition
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 39 238
No 125 1279
n: 1681
p: 0.0079
r: 0.06
Philosopher: Dewey
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy Yes No
Yes 13 211
No 31 1002
n: 1257
p: 0.0386