Survey Results

Correlations

YOB

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: 0.27
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 198 507
No 90 702
n: 1497
p < 0.0001
r: -0.24
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 294 412
No 480 313
n: 1499
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 79 312
No 37 351
n: 779
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Gender: biological
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 167 471
No 271 417
n: 1326
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 127 163
No 76 229
n: 595
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Race: social
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 485 150
No 463 260
n: 1358
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Time travel: metaphysically possible
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 203 182
No 170 264
n: 819
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Law: legal positivism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 108 130
No 124 192
n: 554
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 47 339
No 26 365
n: 777
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Foundations of mathematics: logicism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 30 189
No 38 238
n: 495
p: 0.0005
r: 0.15
Gender: social
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 488 156
No 464 231
n: 1339
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 342 362
No 291 501
n: 1496
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Morality: non-naturalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 136 296
No 114 331
n: 877
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Immortality: yes
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 250 224
No 206 280
n: 960
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Other minds: worms
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 138 319
No 103 402
n: 962
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 16 293
No 9 347
n: 665
p: 0.0006
r: 0.13
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 80 271
No 51 302
n: 704
p: 0.0004
r: 0.13
Other minds: future AI systems
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 207 250
No 195 310
n: 962
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 481 223
No 464 328
n: 1496
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Temporal ontology: eternalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 148 166
No 125 175
n: 614
p: 0.0013
r: 0.13
Grounds of intentionality: phenomenal
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 43 232
No 41 294
n: 610
p: 0.0015
r: 0.13
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 441 263
No 432 360
n: 1496
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Gender categories: eliminate
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 85 327
No 66 365
n: 843
p: 0.0004
r: 0.12
Other minds: flies
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 183 274
No 163 342
n: 962
p: 0.0002
r: 0.12
Foundations of mathematics: structuralism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 50 170
No 70 209
n: 499
p: 0.0088
r: 0.12
Other minds: plants
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 45 412
No 24 481
n: 962
p: 0.0003
r: -0.11
Race: biological
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 90 546
No 190 532
n: 1358
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Consciousness: functionalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 158 245
No 159 280
n: 842
p: 0.001
r: 0.11
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 201 202
No 184 264
n: 851
p: 0.0012
r: 0.11
Properties: transcendent universals
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 60 225
No 78 267
n: 630
p: 0.0053
r: 0.11
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 119 274
No 104 278
n: 775
p: 0.0022
r: -0.11
Spacetime: relationism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 112 131
No 154 136
n: 533
p: 0.0115
r: 0.11
Possible worlds: concrete
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 24 432
No 20 446
n: 922
p: 0.0011
r: 0.11
Justification: infinitism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 7 383
No 11 366
n: 767
p: 0.0034
r: 0.11
Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 21 291
No 30 327
n: 669
p: 0.0065
r: 0.1
Properties: nonexistent
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 25 259
No 36 308
n: 628
p: 0.0085
r: -0.1
Race: unreal
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 86 539
No 145 564
n: 1334
p: 0.0002
r: 0.1
Practical reason: Kantian
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 78 269
No 79 337
n: 763
p: 0.0054
r: 0.1
Properties: immanent universals
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 74 210
No 72 273
n: 629
p: 0.0118
r: -0.1
Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 66 221
No 102 203
n: 592
p: 0.0157
r: 0.1
Consciousness: dualism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 110 291
No 98 341
n: 840
p: 0.004
r: 0.1
Consciousness: eliminativism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 22 379
No 21 418
n: 840
p: 0.0044
r: 0.1
Normative concepts: fit
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 26 289
No 32 335
n: 682
p: 0.0122
r: 0.09
Arguments for theism: design
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 95 294
No 76 320
n: 785
p: 0.008
r: 0.09
Foundations of mathematics: set-theoretic
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 34 188
No 49 228
n: 499
p: 0.0371
r: 0.09
Mind uploading: survival
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 133 272
No 127 311
n: 843
p: 0.0067
r: 0.09
Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 157 209
No 156 243
n: 765
p: 0.0107
r: 0.09
Other minds: fish
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 330 127
No 325 180
n: 962
p: 0.0044
r: 0.09
Race categories: revise
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 136 232
No 144 277
n: 789
p: 0.0101
r: -0.09
Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 86 147
No 154 172
n: 559
p: 0.0313
r: 0.09
Aesthetic experience: pleasure
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 40 193
No 53 275
n: 561
p: 0.0334
r: 0.09
Race categories: preserve
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 34 334
No 35 384
n: 787
p: 0.012
r: 0.09
Foundations of mathematics: formalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 16 204
No 20 256
n: 496
p: 0.048
r: 0.09
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 185 466
No 179 589
n: 1419
p: 0.0011
r: 0.09
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 381 323
No 405 387
n: 1496
p: 0.0009
r: 0.09
Aesthetic experience: perception
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 73 160
No 106 222
n: 561
p: 0.0441
r: -0.08
Temporal ontology: presentism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 61 252
No 63 237
n: 613
p: 0.0369
r: 0.08
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 168 428
No 171 474
n: 1241
p: 0.0039
r: 0.08
Knowledge claims: relativism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 26 570
No 45 601
n: 1242
p: 0.0043
r: -0.08
Mental content: internalism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 146 434
No 213 441
n: 1234
p: 0.005
r: 0.08
Personal identity: further-fact view
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 106 482
No 109 516
n: 1213
p: 0.0056
r: 0.08
Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 159 281
No 135 309
n: 884
p: 0.0188
r: -0.08
Race categories: eliminate
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 156 212
No 204 216
n: 788
p: 0.0274
r: -0.08
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 325 271
No 414 234
n: 1244
p: 0.0061
r: 0.08
Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 330 338
No 342 446
n: 1456
p: 0.0031
r: 0.08
Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 207 499
No 219 575
n: 1500
p: 0.0034
r: 0.07
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 254 450
No 270 522
n: 1496
p: 0.0044
r: 0.07
Response to external-world skepticism: epistemic externalist
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 82 307
No 82 308
n: 779
p: 0.0485
r: -0.07
Time: A-theory
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 126 314
No 158 296
n: 894
p: 0.0438
r: -0.07
Capital punishment: permissible
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 80 395
No 98 425
n: 998
p: 0.0375
r: 0.07
Aim of philosophy: happiness
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 95 540
No 102 654
n: 1391
p: 0.0148
r: -0.07
Other minds: adult humans
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 448 9
No 503 2
n: 962
p: 0.0438
r: -0.06
Personal identity: biological view
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 108 486
No 170 459
n: 1223
p: 0.0317
r: -0.06
Footbridge: push
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 159 512
No 187 505
n: 1363
p: 0.0262
r: 0.06
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 479 217
No 481 267
n: 1444
p: 0.0237
r: 0.06
Teletransporter: survival
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 269 323
No 246 390
n: 1228
p: 0.0413
r: 0.06
Free will: no free will
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 87 622
No 96 678
n: 1483
p: 0.0276
r: 0.06
Vagueness: metaphysical
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 116 462
No 148 489
n: 1215
p: 0.048
r: 0.06
Gender: unreal
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 37 573
No 23 626
n: 1259
p: 0.0488
r: 0.05
Philosophical progress: a lot
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 337 379
No 332 453
n: 1501
p: 0.0348
r: -0.05
Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Other demographics: YOB Accept Reject
Yes 261 405
No 315 400
n: 1381
p: 0.0462

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.13
Tradition: Analytic
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 659 88
No 647 171
n: 1565
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Region of affiliation: United Kingdom
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 108 646
No 74 778
n: 1606
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Gender: male
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 579 166
No 697 153
n: 1595
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 31 485
No 81 590
n: 1187
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Gender: female
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 162 583
No 150 700
n: 1595
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Tradition: Other tradition
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 49 698
No 108 710
n: 1565
p < 0.0001
r: -0.1
AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 52 697
No 103 729
n: 1581
p < 0.0001
r: -0.09
Region of PhD: Canada
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 13 587
No 30 472
n: 1102
p: 0.003
r: -0.08
AOS: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 32 717
No 56 776
n: 1581
p: 0.002
r: -0.08
Region of PhD: Europe
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 46 554
No 64 438
n: 1102
p: 0.0112
r: -0.08
AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 46 703
No 76 756
n: 1581
p: 0.0025
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Carnap
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 42 474
No 35 636
n: 1187
p: 0.0107
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Socrates
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 13 503
No 30 641
n: 1187
p: 0.0109
r: -0.07
AOS: Aesthetics
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 33 716
No 53 779
n: 1581
p: 0.0046
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Du Bois
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 9 507
No 3 668
n: 1187
p: 0.0144
r: 0.06
Philosopher: Lewis
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 57 459
No 52 619
n: 1187
p: 0.0298
r: -0.06
AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 56 693
No 88 744
n: 1581
p: 0.0129
r: -0.06
Tradition: Continental
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 39 708
No 63 755
n: 1565
p: 0.0136
r: 0.06
AOS: Epistemology
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 195 554
No 174 658
n: 1581
p: 0.0134
r: 0.06
AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 83 666
No 68 764
n: 1581
p: 0.0134
r: -0.06
Region of affiliation: Europe
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 108 646
No 155 697
n: 1606
p: 0.0163
r: 0.06
AOS: Normative Ethics
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 168 581
No 162 670
n: 1581
p: 0.0269
r: 0.05
Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 82 655
No 75 777
n: 1589
p: 0.0335
r: -0.05
Region of affiliation: Canada
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 38 716
No 70 782
n: 1606
p: 0.0329
r: -0.05
AOS: Philosophy of Mathematics
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 14 735
No 30 802
n: 1581
p: 0.0376
r: 0.05
AOS: Decision Theory
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 28 721
No 14 818
n: 1581
p: 0.0383
r: -0.05
AOS: Philosophy of Law
Other demographics: YOB Yes No
Yes 14 735
No 29 803
n: 1581
p: 0.0482