Survey Results

Correlations

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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: 0.23	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	13	5
No	98	459

n: 575

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Free will: libertarianism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	21	11
No	224	913

n: 1169

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	God: theism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	22	10
No	233	904

n: 1169

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Response to external-world skepticism: epistemic externalist
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	11	8
No	119	485

n: 623

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Meaning of life: objective
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	23	4
No	386	576

n: 989

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Gender categories: preserve
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	10	7
No	146	520

n: 683

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	10	5
No	161	308

n: 484

p: 0.0013

r: -0.14	Abortion: permissible
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	11	9
No	681	128

n: 829

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	6	14
No	47	498

n: 565

p: 0.0007

r: 0.14	Consciousness: dualism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	12	11
No	155	494

n: 672

p: 0.0003

r: -0.14	Personal identity: psychological view
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	5	25
No	500	412

n: 942

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Free will: compatibilism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	8	24
No	740	399

n: 1171

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Personal identity: further-fact view
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	13	17
No	158	747

n: 935

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Aesthetic value: objective
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	26	4
No	524	506

n: 1060

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	30	2
No	717	376

n: 1125

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Properties: transcendent universals
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	8	10
No	107	413

n: 538

p: 0.0033

r: 0.13	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	16	13
No	260	690

n: 979

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	32	0
No	761	309

n: 1102

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Abstract objects: Platonism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	22	7
No	421	598

n: 1048

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Morality: non-naturalism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	13	9
No	186	510

n: 718

p: 0.002

r: 0.11	Propositional attitudes: representational
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	15	3
No	257	279

n: 554

p: 0.0071

r: 0.11	Well-being: objective list
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	15	1
No	375	256

n: 647

p: 0.0042

r: 0.11	Vagueness: epistemic
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	12	15
No	248	688

n: 963

p: 0.0006

r: -0.11	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	10	20
No	580	371

n: 981

p: 0.0007

r: 0.11	Propositions: simple entities
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	6	17
No	38	493

n: 554

p: 0.0113

r: -0.11	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	7	19
No	549	401

n: 976

p: 0.0008

r: 0.11	Zombies: metaphysically possible
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	16	14
No	268	717

n: 1015

p: 0.0008

r: 0.1	Possible worlds: abstract
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	21	3
No	405	317

n: 746

p: 0.0048

r: 0.1	Immortality: yes
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	15	5
No	355	405

n: 780

p: 0.0043

r: 0.1	Concepts: nativism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	10	6
No	185	376

n: 577

p: 0.0174

r: 0.1	True contradictions: impossible
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	20	0
No	470	177

n: 667

p: 0.0118

r: 0.09	Belief or credence: belief
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	11	8
No	178	354

n: 551

p: 0.0297

r: 0.09	External world: non-skeptical realism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	32	0
No	950	172

n: 1154

p: 0.0016

r: -0.09	Knowledge: empiricism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	9	20
No	546	382

n: 957

p: 0.0051

r: -0.09	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	9	19
No	477	480

n: 985

p: 0.0053

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	21	10
No	581	580

n: 1192

p: 0.0023

r: 0.09	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	18	3
No	440	254

n: 715

p: 0.0219

r: 0.09	A priori knowledge: yes
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	30	2
No	875	277

n: 1184

p: 0.0032

r: -0.08	Gender: social
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	13	15
No	732	324

n: 1084

p: 0.0052

r: -0.08	Mind: physicalism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	11	21
No	610	465

n: 1107

p: 0.0054

r: -0.08	Gender categories: revise
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	6	11
No	370	300

n: 687

p: 0.0311

r: 0.08	Truth: correspondence
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	24	7
No	571	456

n: 1058

p: 0.0082

r: 0.08	Politics: capitalism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	7	9
No	248	462

n: 726

p: 0.0299

r: 0.08	Other minds: newborn babies
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	24	0
No	667	97

n: 788

p: 0.0289

r: 0.08	Arguments for theism: design
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	8	11
No	122	510

n: 651

p: 0.048

r: 0.08	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	11	16
No	155	632

n: 814

p: 0.0274

r: 0.07	Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	15	5
No	444	308

n: 772

p: 0.0375

r: 0.07	Gender: biological
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	16	12
No	364	685

n: 1077

p: 0.0151

r: 0.07	Science: scientific realism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	29	1
No	828	246

n: 1104

p: 0.0143

r: 0.07	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	8	18
No	155	798

n: 979

p: 0.0255

r: 0.07	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	27	4
No	727	393

n: 1151

p: 0.0225

r: -0.07	Vagueness: semantic
Philosopher: Reid	Accept	Reject
Yes	8	19
No	537	403

n: 967

p: 0.0365

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.24	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	16	16
No	94	1131

n: 1257

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	AOS: Epistemology
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	20	12
No	254	971

n: 1257

p < 0.0001

r: 0.09	Region of PhD: United States
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	21	1
No	570	275

n: 867

p: 0.0053

r: 0.09	Region of nationality: United States
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	26	6
No	608	558

n: 1198

p: 0.0011

r: 0.06	Tradition: Analytic
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	29	1
No	972	243

n: 1245

p: 0.0231

r: 0.06	Region of affiliation: United States
Philosopher: Reid	Yes	No
Yes	24	8
No	700	533

n: 1265

p: 0.0397