Survey Results

Correlations

Capital punishment: permissible

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Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.32
Politics: capitalism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 88 61
Reject 185 450
n: 784
p < 0.0001
r: -0.31
Gender: social
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 78 85
Reject 560 180
n: 903
p < 0.0001
r: 0.3
Race: biological
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 69 96
Reject 112 644
n: 921
p < 0.0001
r: 0.25
Gender categories: preserve
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 59 91
Reject 110 499
n: 759
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Abortion: permissible
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 119 47
Reject 637 93
n: 896
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 46 102
Reject 86 578
n: 812
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 128 55
Reject 394 428
n: 1005
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Gender: biological
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 83 80
Reject 213 520
n: 896
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 31 152
Reject 245 579
n: 1007
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 50 97
Reject 376 294
n: 817
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Race: social
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 86 79
Reject 553 204
n: 922
p < 0.0001
r: -0.17
Gender categories: revise
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 60 90
Reject 346 265
n: 761
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 42 93
Reject 78 417
n: 630
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Concepts: nativism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 65 61
Reject 149 348
n: 623
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Truth: correspondence
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 126 45
Reject 407 326
n: 904
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Practical reason: Kantian
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 17 106
Reject 122 423
n: 668
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Race categories: preserve
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 19 109
Reject 37 535
n: 700
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Extended mind: yes
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 60 81
Reject 338 263
n: 742
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Immortality: yes
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 102 64
Reject 318 380
n: 864
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 22 161
Reject 188 634
n: 1005
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Truth: epistemic
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 8 163
Reject 83 648
n: 902
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Law: legal positivism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 30 67
Reject 180 228
n: 505
p: 0.0014
r: -0.14
Properties: nonexistent
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 9 104
Reject 48 413
n: 574
p: 0.0009
r: 0.13
Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 16 96
Reject 42 458
n: 612
p: 0.0008
r: 0.13
Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 74 58
Reject 240 342
n: 714
p: 0.0004
r: -0.13
Gender categories: eliminate
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 15 135
Reject 120 491
n: 761
p: 0.0005
r: 0.12
God: theism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 55 131
Reject 150 666
n: 1002
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
Mind: physicalism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 84 98
Reject 476 301
n: 959
p: 0.0002
r: 0.12
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 54 45
Reject 178 252
n: 529
p: 0.0081
r: 0.11
Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 32 39
Reject 120 181
n: 372
p: 0.027
r: 0.11
True contradictions: impossible
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 126 27
Reject 430 145
n: 728
p: 0.0024
r: -0.11
True contradictions: actual
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 13 140
Reject 89 486
n: 728
p: 0.0029
r: -0.11
Other minds: plants
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 7 163
Reject 53 642
n: 865
p: 0.0013
r: -0.11
Truth: deflationary
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 31 140
Reject 227 505
n: 903
p: 0.001
r: -0.11
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 38 97
Reject 171 323
n: 629
p: 0.0063
r: 0.11
A priori knowledge: yes
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 159 30
Reject 627 199
n: 1015
p: 0.0007
r: -0.1
Response to external-world skepticism: epistemic externalist
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 22 113
Reject 126 440
n: 701
p: 0.0073
r: -0.1
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 55 98
Reject 299 330
n: 782
p: 0.0048
r: 0.1
Logic: classical
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 109 46
Reject 389 219
n: 763
p: 0.0057
r: -0.1
Knowledge: empiricism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 78 72
Reject 387 279
n: 816
p: 0.0043
r: -0.1
Interlevel metaphysics: identity
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 14 86
Reject 63 374
n: 537
p: 0.0212
r: -0.1
Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 29 106
Reject 120 374
n: 629
p: 0.0132
r: 0.1
Material composition: restrictivism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 39 39
Reject 136 200
n: 414
p: 0.0449
r: -0.1
Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 66 119
Reject 358 450
n: 993
p: 0.0019
r: -0.1
Propositions: sets
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 6 113
Reject 55 420
n: 594
p: 0.017
r: 0.1
Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 45 92
Reject 130 440
n: 707
p: 0.0093
r: -0.1
Theory of reference: deflationary
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 8 115
Reject 102 420
n: 645
p: 0.0144
r: -0.1
Arguments for theism: moral
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 12 127
Reject 64 498
n: 701
p: 0.0116
r: 0.1
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 133 50
Reject 544 267
n: 994
p: 0.0027
r: -0.09
Other minds: worms
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 30 140
Reject 193 502
n: 865
p: 0.0052
r: -0.09
Metaontology: deflationary realism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 25 74
Reject 142 286
n: 527
p: 0.0299
r: -0.09
Gender: psychological
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 30 131
Reject 178 554
n: 893
p: 0.0047
r: -0.09
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 28 108
Reject 148 426
n: 710
p: 0.0119
r: -0.09
Consciousness: eliminativism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 6 139
Reject 36 571
n: 752
p: 0.0098
r: 0.09
Hume: skeptic
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 59 73
Reject 203 341
n: 676
p: 0.0154
r: 0.09
Epistemic justification: internalism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 82 82
Reject 260 470
n: 894
p: 0.0058
r: -0.09
Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 49 113
Reject 233 415
n: 810
p: 0.0089
r: 0.09
Values in science: necessarily value-free
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 39 114
Reject 102 527
n: 782
p: 0.0104
r: -0.09
Interlevel metaphysics: realization
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 24 77
Reject 115 323
n: 539
p: 0.0349
r: 0.09
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 42 80
Reject 160 406
n: 688
p: 0.0174
r: -0.09
Morality: constructivism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 27 125
Reject 159 498
n: 809
p: 0.0102
r: -0.09
Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 19 116
Reject 85 411
n: 631
p: 0.0244
r: -0.09
Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 10 98
Reject 75 352
n: 535
p: 0.0413
r: 0.09
Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 110 48
Reject 407 240
n: 805
p: 0.0137
r: -0.09
Consciousness: identity theory
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 21 124
Reject 94 515
n: 754
p: 0.0188
r: -0.08
Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 16 124
Reject 87 494
n: 721
p: 0.0231
r: 0.08
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 113 72
Reject 423 385
n: 993
p: 0.0096
r: 0.08
Free will: libertarianism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 48 127
Reject 155 663
n: 993
p: 0.0101
r: -0.08
Philosophical knowledge: none
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 6 161
Reject 24 656
n: 847
p: 0.0182
r: 0.08
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 126 37
Reject 451 197
n: 811
p: 0.0215
r: -0.08
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 40 131
Reject 209 550
n: 930
p: 0.0187
r: 0.08
Consciousness: dualism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 49 96
Reject 140 469
n: 754
p: 0.0386
r: -0.07
Free will: compatibilism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 105 72
Reject 535 283
n: 995
p: 0.019
r: -0.07
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 86 78
Reject 395 277
n: 836
p: 0.0386
r: -0.07
Meaning of life: nonexistent
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 30 130
Reject 159 524
n: 843
p: 0.0438
r: -0.07
Race: unreal
Capital punishment: permissible Accept Reject
Accept 20 143
Reject 141 603
n: 907
p: 0.0394

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.21
Philosopher: Aquinas
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 21 132
Reject 19 638
n: 810
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Region of nationality: Europe
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 14 168
Reject 192 633
n: 1007
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Region of nationality: United States
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 125 57
Reject 402 423
n: 1007
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 35 163
Reject 60 796
n: 1054
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Gender: male
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 168 20
Reject 682 175
n: 1045
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Gender: female
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 20 168
Reject 172 685
n: 1045
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Region of affiliation: Europe
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 15 180
Reject 157 707
n: 1059
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Region of affiliation: United States
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 131 64
Reject 464 400
n: 1059
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Region of PhD: United States
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 105 32
Reject 421 219
n: 777
p: 0.0004
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Aristotle
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 42 111
Reject 112 545
n: 810
p: 0.0003
r: -0.11
AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 5 193
Reject 70 786
n: 1054
p: 0.0002
r: 0.11
AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 14 184
Reject 21 835
n: 1054
p: 0.0003
r: 0.1
Region of affiliation: Asia
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 15 180
Reject 22 842
n: 1059
p: 0.0008
r: -0.1
Philosopher: Kant
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 15 138
Reject 103 554
n: 810
p: 0.0035
r: 0.1
Tradition: Analytic
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 176 15
Reject 725 124
n: 1040
p: 0.0017
r: 0.1
AOS: Metaphysics
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 61 137
Reject 200 656
n: 1054
p: 0.0019
r: 0.09
Region of nationality: Asia
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 11 171
Reject 16 809
n: 1007
p: 0.0028
r: -0.09
Region of PhD: United Kingdom
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 12 125
Reject 89 551
n: 777
p: 0.0151
r: -0.08
Region of PhD: Europe
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 9 128
Reject 67 573
n: 777
p: 0.0291
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Russell
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 14 139
Reject 44 613
n: 810
p: 0.0296
r: -0.07
AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 6 192
Reject 41 815
n: 1054
p: 0.0173
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Nietzsche
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 8 145
Reject 13 644
n: 810
p: 0.0408
r: -0.07
Other demographics: YOB
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 80 98
Reject 395 425
n: 998
p: 0.0375
r: -0.06
AOS: Philosophy of Action
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 9 189
Reject 64 792
n: 1054
p: 0.0412
r: -0.06
Region of affiliation: Canada
Capital punishment: permissible Yes No
Accept 7 188
Reject 53 811
n: 1059
p: 0.0418