Survey Results

Correlations

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
Material composition: nihilism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 12 41
No 33 384
n: 470
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Politics: capitalism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 24 141
No 285 446
n: 896
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 56 76
No 154 539
n: 825
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Material composition: restrictivism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 10 43
No 185 232
n: 470
p: 0.0005
r: -0.16
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 110 204
No 712 572
n: 1598
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 48 112
No 317 351
n: 828
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Race: social
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 257 55
No 760 377
n: 1449
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Gender: social
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 262 58
No 750 357
n: 1427
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Immortality: yes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 56 118
No 425 409
n: 1008
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
External world: idealism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 38 288
No 78 1191
n: 1595
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Morality: constructivism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 54 92
No 153 634
n: 933
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Truth: epistemic
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 49 225
No 114 1045
n: 1433
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Capital punishment: permissible
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 20 172
No 168 685
n: 1045
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Gender: biological
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 66 246
No 398 702
n: 1412
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 21 45
No 69 382
n: 517
p: 0.0012
r: 0.14
Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 127 190
No 330 953
n: 1600
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Laws of nature: Humean
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 110 153
No 364 811
n: 1438
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 94 68
No 315 418
n: 895
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
True contradictions: impossible
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 75 45
No 569 159
n: 848
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Other minds: plants
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 21 173
No 53 777
n: 1024
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Gender categories: preserve
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 22 148
No 173 534
n: 877
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Trolley problem: switch
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 185 95
No 895 244
n: 1419
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Race: biological
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 37 274
No 262 875
n: 1448
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Other minds: particles
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 7 187
No 14 816
n: 1024
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 88 227
No 221 1060
n: 1596
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Extended mind: yes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 97 51
No 378 340
n: 866
p: 0.0003
r: 0.12
Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 14 87
No 39 555
n: 695
p: 0.0016
r: -0.12
External world: non-skeptical realism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 256 69
No 1111 156
n: 1592
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Arguments for theism: pragmatic
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 30 99
No 111 575
n: 815
p: 0.0009
r: -0.11
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 89 74
No 568 213
n: 944
p: 0.0005
r: 0.11
Other minds: current AI systems
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 6 188
No 29 801
n: 1024
p: 0.0005
r: 0.11
True contradictions: actual
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 22 98
No 90 638
n: 848
p: 0.0015
r: 0.11
Properties: classes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 16 65
No 71 514
n: 666
p: 0.0049
r: 0.1
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 10 110
No 31 697
n: 848
p: 0.0025
r: -0.1
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 81 68
No 468 227
n: 844
p: 0.0026
r: -0.1
Footbridge: push
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 42 246
No 330 843
n: 1461
p < 0.0001
r: -0.1
Units of selection: genes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 41 59
No 251 225
n: 576
p: 0.0223
r: 0.1
Gender categories: eliminate
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 45 126
No 108 602
n: 881
p: 0.0047
r: 0.09
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 180 83
No 610 461
n: 1334
p: 0.0006
r: -0.09
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 55 207
No 310 759
n: 1331
p: 0.0007
r: 0.09
External world: skepticism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 17 309
No 75 1192
n: 1593
p: 0.0002
r: 0.09
Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 159 147
No 465 703
n: 1474
p: 0.0004
r: -0.09
Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 19 113
No 182 507
n: 821
p: 0.0082
r: -0.09
Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 43 103
No 205 341
n: 692
p: 0.0162
r: -0.09
Race: unreal
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 38 270
No 204 908
n: 1420
p: 0.0008
r: 0.09
Justification: infinitism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 5 132
No 14 654
n: 805
p: 0.0128
r: 0.09
Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 23 80
No 85 450
n: 638
p: 0.028
r: 0.09
Consciousness: panpsychism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 17 128
No 58 674
n: 877
p: 0.0115
r: 0.08
Justification: coherentism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 46 92
No 173 504
n: 815
p: 0.0157
r: 0.08
Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 28 54
No 153 387
n: 622
p: 0.0356
r: -0.08
Ought implies can: yes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 113 78
No 549 257
n: 997
p: 0.0081
r: -0.08
Science: scientific realism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 204 83
No 987 232
n: 1506
p: 0.0012
r: -0.08
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 156 168
No 782 484
n: 1590
p: 0.001
r: -0.08
Propositional attitudes: representational
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 38 63
No 321 285
n: 707
p: 0.029
r: -0.08
Values in science: necessarily value-free
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 21 141
No 145 588
n: 895
p: 0.0148
r: 0.08
Zombies: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 123 154
No 450 659
n: 1386
p: 0.0025
r: -0.08
Morality: expressivism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 6 139
No 101 686
n: 932
p: 0.0134
r: -0.08
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 21 61
No 242 289
n: 613
p: 0.0485
r: -0.08
Values in science: can be either
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 41 122
No 249 485
n: 897
p: 0.0185
r: -0.08
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 25 244
No 168 853
n: 1290
p: 0.0053
r: 0.08
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 101 216
No 293 897
n: 1507
p: 0.0027
r: 0.08
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 155 84
No 601 469
n: 1309
p: 0.0055
r: -0.08
Concepts: nativism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 29 91
No 207 386
n: 713
p: 0.0413
r: 0.08
Abortion: permissible
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 158 18
No 734 147
n: 1057
p: 0.0131
r: 0.08
Philosophical progress: none
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 16 309
No 49 1225
n: 1599
p: 0.0023
r: -0.08
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 178 126
No 856 401
n: 1561
p: 0.0029
r: 0.08
Propositional attitudes: dispositional
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 44 59
No 201 402
n: 706
p: 0.0459
r: 0.07
Causation: nonexistent
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 8 113
No 28 641
n: 790
p: 0.036
r: -0.07
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 88 217
No 430 737
n: 1472
p: 0.0046
r: 0.07
Meaning of life: subjective
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 130 139
No 425 653
n: 1347
p: 0.0086
r: -0.07
Morality: non-naturalism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 30 115
No 236 548
n: 929
p: 0.0313
r: 0.07
Other minds: worms
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 51 143
No 207 623
n: 1024
p: 0.0256
r: 0.07
Philosophical knowledge: none
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 9 159
No 30 806
n: 1004
p: 0.0304
r: -0.07
Abstract objects: Platonism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 88 181
No 524 615
n: 1408
p: 0.0104
r: 0.07
Free will: compatibilism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 222 97
No 788 486
n: 1593
p: 0.0065
r: 0.07
Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 12 186
No 52 852
n: 1102
p: 0.0284
r: 0.06
Knowledge: empiricism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 163 93
No 567 459
n: 1282
p: 0.0229
r: 0.06
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 152 119
No 515 508
n: 1294
p: 0.0262
r: -0.06
Free will: libertarianism
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 46 273
No 279 992
n: 1590
p: 0.0169
r: -0.06
Philosophical progress: a lot
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 124 201
No 599 676
n: 1600
p: 0.019
r: -0.05
Truth: correspondence
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 140 134
No 679 482
n: 1435
p: 0.044
r: 0.05
Philosophical progress: a little
Gender: female Accept Reject
Yes 173 152
No 628 647
n: 1600
p: 0.0462

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.33
AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 64 279
No 16 1325
n: 1684
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Philosopher: Beauvoir
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 20 227
No 5 994
n: 1246
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosopher: Wollstonecraft
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 8 239
No 1 998
n: 1246
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
AOS: Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 28 315
No 25 1316
n: 1684
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Philosopher: Arendt
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 12 235
No 6 993
n: 1246
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Other demographics: YOB
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 162 150
No 583 700
n: 1595
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Philosopher: Marx
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 20 227
No 29 970
n: 1246
p: 0.0002
r: 0.1
Philosopher: Foucault
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 12 235
No 14 985
n: 1246
p: 0.0007
r: -0.09
AOS: Meta-Ethics
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 24 319
No 200 1141
n: 1684
p < 0.0001
r: 0.09
Tradition: Continental
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 38 306
No 72 1248
n: 1664
p: 0.0002
r: -0.09
Philosopher: Russell
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 5 242
No 72 927
n: 1246
p: 0.0024
r: 0.08
AOS: Applied Ethics
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 64 279
No 157 1184
n: 1684
p: 0.0007
r: -0.08
Region of affiliation: Europe
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 36 318
No 237 1129
n: 1720
p: 0.001
r: -0.08
AOS: Metaphysics
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 52 291
No 312 1029
n: 1684
p: 0.0011
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 11 236
No 101 898
n: 1246
p: 0.0054
r: -0.08
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 14 329
No 124 1217
n: 1684
p: 0.0018
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Anscombe
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 14 233
No 25 974
n: 1246
p: 0.0105
r: -0.07
Tradition: Analytic
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 270 74
No 1119 201
n: 1664
p: 0.0052
r: -0.07
AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 17 326
No 131 1210
n: 1684
p: 0.0049
r: 0.07
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 74 269
No 208 1133
n: 1684
p: 0.0073
r: -0.06
Philosopher: Carnap
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 8 239
No 70 929
n: 1246
p: 0.0286
r: -0.06
AOS: Epistemology
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 63 280
No 332 1009
n: 1684
p: 0.0127
r: 0.06
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 27 316
No 62 1279
n: 1684
p: 0.0164
r: -0.05
AOS: Philosophy of Physical Science
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 6 337
No 58 1283
n: 1684
p: 0.026
r: 0.05
Region of affiliation: United States
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 218 136
No 753 613
n: 1720
p: 0.029
r: -0.05
Region of nationality: Europe
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 51 265
No 274 1024
n: 1614
p: 0.0482
r: -0.05
AOS: Philosophy of Language
Gender: female Yes No
Yes 43 300
No 227 1114
n: 1684
p: 0.048