Survey Results

Correlations

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Answer

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	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	90
Reject	341	187

n: 668

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	62	62
Reject	109	336

n: 569

p < 0.0001

r: 0.26	Consciousness: dualism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	65	77
Reject	88	387

n: 617

p < 0.0001

r: 0.26	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	76
Reject	56	345

n: 523

p < 0.0001

r: 0.26	Morality: non-naturalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	74	77
Reject	110	380

n: 641

p < 0.0001

r: -0.25	Laws of nature: Humean
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	148
Reject	214	354

n: 739

p < 0.0001

r: -0.24	Knowledge: empiricism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	84
Reject	305	188

n: 637

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Free will: libertarianism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	107
Reject	97	492

n: 760

p < 0.0001

r: 0.23	Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	69
Reject	40	333

n: 480

p < 0.0001

r: -0.23	Mind: physicalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	96
Reject	372	193

n: 727

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Personal identity: psychological view
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	48	101
Reject	276	220

n: 645

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Well-being: objective list
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	95	37
Reject	229	202

n: 563

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	40	121
Reject	233	306

n: 700

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Aesthetic value: objective
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	55
Reject	244	299

n: 708

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	118	55
Reject	276	322

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	76	31
Reject	147	209

n: 463

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	62
Reject	116	269

n: 497

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	149	31
Reject	371	211

n: 762

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Meaning of life: objective
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	87	63
Reject	178	326

n: 654

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Time travel: metaphysically possible
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	94
Reject	236	219

n: 604

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Abortion: permissible
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	107	50
Reject	466	67

n: 690

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Temporal ontology: presentism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	78
Reject	59	329

n: 508

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Other minds: future AI systems
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	114
Reject	243	278

n: 678

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Consciousness: functionalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	109
Reject	208	268

n: 618

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Chinese room: understands
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	125
Reject	109	369

n: 618

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Personal identity: further-fact view
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	49	100
Reject	78	412

n: 639

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Spacetime: relationism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	72
Reject	166	165

n: 439

p: 0.0002

r: 0.17	Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	69
Reject	36	269

n: 390

p: 0.0006

r: -0.17	Experience machine: yes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	152
Reject	98	462

n: 729

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	90
Reject	123	231

n: 461

p: 0.0003

r: 0.17	Material composition: restrictivism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	57	40
Reject	103	180

n: 380

p: 0.001

r: -0.17	Practical reason: Humean
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	96
Reject	156	238

n: 515

p: 0.0002

r: -0.16	Free will: compatibilism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	85
Reject	404	186

n: 761

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Mind uploading: survival
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	118
Reject	157	304

n: 611

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Abstract objects: Platonism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	90	68
Reject	233	311

n: 702

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Time: A-theory
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	73
Reject	106	296

n: 534

p: 0.0002

r: -0.16	Extended mind: yes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	87
Reject	264	205

n: 612

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	God: theism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	57	120
Reject	100	485

n: 762

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	106
Reject	56	389

n: 583

p: 0.0002

r: -0.15	Meaning of life: subjective
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	109
Reject	210	294

n: 655

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Truth: correspondence
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	120	39
Reject	314	238

n: 711

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Properties: transcendent universals
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	90
Reject	72	313

n: 514

p: 0.0009

r: 0.14	Belief or credence: belief
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	71
Reject	122	283

n: 531

p: 0.0008

r: 0.14	Quantum mechanics: hidden-variables
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	57
Reject	65	240

n: 391

p: 0.0043

r: -0.14	Belief or credence: credence
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	96
Reject	152	253

n: 531

p: 0.0011

r: -0.14	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	113
Reject	83	320

n: 525

p: 0.0012

r: 0.14	Propositions: simple entities
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	111
Reject	21	376

n: 527

p: 0.0013

r: 0.14	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	144	28
Reject	404	170

n: 746

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Gender: psychological
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	136
Reject	135	392

n: 686

p: 0.0003

r: -0.13	Footbridge: push
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	140
Reject	171	383

n: 718

p: 0.0003

r: 0.13	Normative ethics: deontology
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	83
Reject	179	363

n: 703

p: 0.0004

r: -0.13	Teletransporter: survival
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	102
Reject	228	290

n: 666

p: 0.0007

r: -0.13	Truth: deflationary
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	134
Reject	177	374

n: 710

p: 0.0006

r: -0.13	Properties: tropes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	108
Reject	75	310

n: 514

p: 0.0035

r: 0.13	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	43
Reject	308	189

n: 645

p: 0.0011

r: -0.13	Morality: expressivism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	143
Reject	69	424

n: 644

p: 0.0012

r: -0.13	Justification: reliabilism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	85
Reject	182	260

n: 568

p: 0.0024

r: -0.13	Morality: naturalist realism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	110
Reject	182	310

n: 643

p: 0.0012

r: 0.12	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	58
Reject	147	247

n: 515

p: 0.0058

r: -0.12	Temporal ontology: eternalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	77
Reject	173	214

n: 507

p: 0.0068

r: -0.12	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	97	76
Reject	401	197

n: 771

p: 0.001

r: 0.12	Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	120
Reject	37	410

n: 583

p: 0.0047

r: -0.11	Well-being: desire satisfaction
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	113
Reject	99	332

n: 563

p: 0.0067

r: 0.11	A priori knowledge: yes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	153	25
Reject	455	140

n: 773

p: 0.0022

r: -0.11	Perceptual experience: representationalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	71
Reject	231	224

n: 590

p: 0.0081

r: 0.11	Epistemic justification: internalism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	81
Reject	201	354

n: 714

p: 0.0041

r: 0.11	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	86
Reject	159	370

n: 678

p: 0.0053

r: 0.11	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	101
Reject	68	383

n: 586

p: 0.0096

r: -0.11	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	96
Reject	61	314

n: 480

p: 0.0192

r: 0.1	Theory of reference: causal
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	81	45
Reject	223	201

n: 550

p: 0.0169

r: 0.1	Race categories: preserve
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	110
Reject	34	396

n: 552

p: 0.0174

r: -0.1	Propositions: sets
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	125
Reject	51	345

n: 526

p: 0.0253

r: 0.09	Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	57
Reject	125	238

n: 461

p: 0.0444

r: -0.09	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	71	79
Reject	305	226

n: 681

p: 0.0169

r: -0.09	Other minds: plants
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	150
Reject	41	480

n: 678

p: 0.0179

r: 0.09	Hume: skeptic
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	73
Reject	132	282

n: 543

p: 0.0357

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	81
Reject	275	323

n: 771

p: 0.0127

r: -0.09	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	88
Reject	130	272

n: 524

p: 0.0425

r: 0.09	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	99	30
Reject	280	147

n: 556

p: 0.0392

r: 0.09	Possible worlds: abstract
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	103	58
Reject	292	206

n: 659

p: 0.0257

r: 0.08	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	131	43
Reject	394	207

n: 775

p: 0.0183

r: 0.08	True contradictions: impossible
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	121	25
Reject	346	108

n: 600

p: 0.0399

r: 0.08	Political philosophy: communitarianism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	81
Reject	143	339

n: 619

p: 0.0442

r: 0.08	Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	146	27
Reject	419	179

n: 771

p: 0.0249

r: 0.08	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	92
Reject	151	301

n: 603

p: 0.0476

r: -0.08	Morality: constructivism
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	127
Reject	102	389

n: 642

p: 0.0445

r: 0.08	Philosophical progress: a lot
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	85	93
Reject	282	305

n: 765

p: 0.029

r: -0.07	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Causation: primitive	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	141
Reject	175	412

n: 763

p: 0.0451

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.19	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	39	142
Reject	39	582

n: 802

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Philosopher: Aquinas
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	19	122
Reject	15	460

n: 616

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	AOS: General Philosophy of Science
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	13	168
Reject	92	529

n: 802

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	15	166
Reject	12	609

n: 802

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	12	169
Reject	79	542

n: 802

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Philosopher: Quine
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	7	134
Reject	63	412

n: 616

p: 0.001

r: -0.13	Philosopher: Hume
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	16	125
Reject	103	372

n: 616

p: 0.001

r: -0.12	Region of nationality: Europe
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	22	154
Reject	137	450

n: 763

p: 0.0009

r: 0.12	Philosopher: Moore
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	14	127
Reject	14	461

n: 616

p: 0.0036

r: 0.09	Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	31	145
Reject	49	538

n: 763

p: 0.0088

r: 0.09	Region of PhD: United Kingdom
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	25	107
Reject	52	402

n: 586

p: 0.0228

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Russell
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	18	123
Reject	33	442

n: 616

p: 0.0202

r: -0.09	Region of affiliation: Europe
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	20	163
Reject	107	511

n: 801

p: 0.0084

r: -0.09	Region of PhD: Europe
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	6	126
Reject	49	405

n: 586

p: 0.0281

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Aristotle
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	36	105
Reject	83	392

n: 616

p: 0.0285

r: -0.09	AOS: Philosophy of Social Science
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	7	174
Reject	31	590

n: 802

p: 0.0158

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Frege
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	17	124
Reject	47	428

n: 616

p: 0.0381

r: 0.08	AOS: Meta-Ethics
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	29	152
Reject	74	547

n: 802

p: 0.0215

r: 0.08	Tradition: Analytic
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	168	12
Reject	546	64

n: 790

p: 0.0238

r: 0.07	AOS: Metaphysics
Causation: primitive	Yes	No
Accept	64	117
Reject	159	462

n: 802

p: 0.0486