Survey Results

Correlations

Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: -0.3	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	132
Reject	316	306

n: 793

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Other minds: fish
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	167	31
Reject	501	283

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Gender: biological
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	217
Reject	405	706

n: 1375

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Gender categories: eliminate
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	51	125
Reject	98	584

n: 858

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Gender categories: preserve
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	155
Reject	173	507

n: 855

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Other minds: future AI systems
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	99	99
Reject	295	489

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Gender: social
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	212	61
Reject	764	350

n: 1387

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	God: theism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	275
Reject	285	942

n: 1531

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Abortion: permissible
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	201	18
Reject	653	146

n: 1018

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Capital punishment: permissible
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	188
Reject	161	634

n: 1005

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Propositions: sets
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	104
Reject	47	507

n: 673

p: 0.0002

r: 0.14	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	31	111
Reject	81	484

n: 707

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Grounds of intentionality: phenomenal
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	96
Reject	62	433

n: 610

p: 0.0004

r: 0.14	Other minds: cats
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	196	2
Reject	707	77

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Law: legal positivism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	53	52
Reject	175	271

n: 551

p: 0.0009

r: 0.14	Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	114
Reject	37	496

n: 663

p: 0.0004

r: 0.14	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	144	89
Reject	486	523

n: 1242

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Material composition: nihilism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	75
Reject	35	338

n: 458

p: 0.0046

r: 0.13	Foundations of mathematics: logicism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	75
Reject	53	348

n: 490

p: 0.0036

r: 0.13	Possible worlds: concrete
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	176
Reject	31	703

n: 926

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	101	75
Reject	293	386

n: 855

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Material composition: universalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	49
Reject	110	263

n: 458

p: 0.0056

r: 0.12	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	125	155
Reject	381	758

n: 1419

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	85	192
Reject	507	634

n: 1418

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Quantum mechanics: many-worlds
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	65
Reject	77	312

n: 481

p: 0.0126

r: 0.11	Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	122
Reject	18	514

n: 660

p: 0.0036

r: 0.11	Race: social
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	203	60
Reject	770	355

n: 1388

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Other minds: flies
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	112
Reject	267	517

n: 982

p: 0.0004

r: 0.11	Mind: physicalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	181	95
Reject	661	519

n: 1456

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Other minds: worms
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	135
Reject	184	600

n: 982

p: 0.0005

r: 0.11	Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	131
Reject	139	563

n: 878

p: 0.0011

r: -0.11	Belief or credence: belief
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	112
Reject	189	336

n: 675

p: 0.0042

r: -0.11	Politics: capitalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	133
Reject	261	426

n: 870

p: 0.0012

r: -0.11	Material composition: restrictivism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	59
Reject	167	206

n: 458

p: 0.0213

r: 0.11	Belief or credence: credence
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	87
Reject	163	362

n: 675

p: 0.0054

r: 0.11	Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	125	170
Reject	408	818

n: 1521

p < 0.0001

r: -0.11	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	118
Reject	268	402

n: 832

p: 0.0024

r: 0.1	Grounds of intentionality: inferential
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	105
Reject	54	441

n: 610

p: 0.0095

r: 0.1	Human genetic engineering: permissible
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	139	40
Reject	506	230

n: 915

p: 0.0018

r: 0.1	Propositions: structured entities
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	52	67
Reject	244	311

n: 674

p: 0.0079

r: -0.1	Arguments for theism: moral
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	156
Reject	79	541

n: 786

p: 0.0045

r: 0.1	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	142	153
Reject	497	729

n: 1521

p < 0.0001

r: 0.1	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	96
Reject	78	417

n: 611

p: 0.0131

r: 0.1	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	136
Reject	90	528

n: 784

p: 0.0052

r: 0.1	Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	74
Reject	69	334

n: 493

p: 0.0287

r: 0.1	Properties: classes
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	91
Reject	70	471

n: 646

p: 0.0124

r: 0.1	Units of selection: genes
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	43
Reject	214	237

n: 557

p: 0.0216

r: 0.1	Aesthetic experience: pleasure
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	79
Reject	74	393

n: 566

p: 0.0206

r: 0.09	Consciousness: functionalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	74	98
Reject	245	429

n: 846

p: 0.0062

r: 0.09	Mind uploading: survival
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	110
Reject	203	485

n: 858

p: 0.0063

r: 0.09	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	114
Reject	171	447

n: 787

p: 0.0095

r: 0.09	Causation: nonexistent
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	136
Reject	28	589

n: 761

p: 0.0109

r: 0.09	Free will: no free will
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	256
Reject	136	1086

n: 1521

p: 0.0003

r: 0.09	Arguments for theism: design
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	123
Reject	123	499

n: 791

p: 0.0098

r: 0.09	Other minds: plants
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	178
Reject	51	733

n: 982

p: 0.0044

r: 0.09	Time travel: metaphysically possible
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	83	78
Reject	291	376

n: 828

p: 0.0101

r: 0.09	Consciousness: panpsychism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	158
Reject	57	617

n: 845

p: 0.0097

r: -0.08	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	131
Reject	166	457

n: 792

p: 0.0168

r: 0.08	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	208	87
Reject	766	460

n: 1521

p: 0.0011

r: 0.08	Gender categories: revise
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	95	81
Reject	377	304

n: 857

p: 0.017

r: 0.08	Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	196
Reject	286	872

n: 1440

p: 0.0023

r: 0.08	Personal identity: psychological view
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	147	102
Reject	507	498

n: 1254

p: 0.0049

r: 0.08	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	156	85
Reject	572	445

n: 1258

p: 0.005

r: 0.08	Knowledge claims: relativism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	239
Reject	56	960

n: 1272

p: 0.0048

r: 0.08	Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	128
Reject	149	471

n: 787

p: 0.0287

r: 0.08	Extended mind: yes
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	100	63
Reject	355	319

n: 837

p: 0.0243

r: -0.08	Newcomb's problem: one box
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	148
Reject	247	462

n: 921

p: 0.0186

r: 0.08	Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	194
Reject	48	803

n: 1053

p: 0.0131

r: -0.08	Political philosophy: communitarianism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	177
Reject	335	671

n: 1238

p: 0.0074

r: -0.08	Values in science: can be either
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	137
Reject	233	447

n: 856

p: 0.0279

r: 0.07	Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	109
Reject	131	430

n: 703

p: 0.0491

r: 0.07	Race categories: revise
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	93
Reject	221	413

n: 793

p: 0.0377

r: 0.07	Philosophical progress: a lot
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	155	150
Reject	537	693

n: 1535

p: 0.0038

r: 0.07	True contradictions: actual
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	138
Reject	82	566

n: 813

p: 0.0369

r: -0.07	Justification: reliabilism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	112
Reject	243	377

n: 787

p: 0.0423

r: 0.07	Justification: coherentism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	119
Reject	165	455

n: 786

p: 0.0456

r: 0.07	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	162
Reject	154	700

n: 1058

p: 0.0228

r: 0.07	Gender: unreal
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	239
Reject	43	1005

n: 1303

p: 0.0118

r: 0.07	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	174	121
Reject	626	600

n: 1521

p: 0.0075

r: 0.07	Trolley problem: switch
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	227	57
Reject	815	273

n: 1372

p: 0.0126

r: -0.07	Free will: libertarianism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	261
Reject	261	960

n: 1520

p: 0.0094

r: -0.07	Time: A-theory
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	130
Reject	249	494

n: 914

p: 0.0449

r: 0.06	Perceptual experience: qualia theory
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	31	170
Reject	151	705

n: 1057

p: 0.0385

r: 0.06	Footbridge: push
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	89	195
Reject	278	852

n: 1414

p: 0.0191

r: 0.06	Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	184	111
Reject	708	518

n: 1521

p: 0.0186

r: 0.06	Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	148	141
Reject	558	638

n: 1485

p: 0.0207

r: 0.06	Meaning of life: subjective
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	104	141
Reject	428	627

n: 1300

p: 0.0355

r: -0.06	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	204
Reject	165	842

n: 1239

p: 0.0406

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.27	Other demographics: YOB
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	198	90
Reject	507	702

n: 1497

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Gender: male
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	217	92
Reject	1057	230

n: 1596

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	32	286
Reject	40	1240

n: 1598

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Gender: female
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	88	221
Reject	227	1060

n: 1596

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	AOS: Applied Ethics
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	65	253
Reject	142	1138

n: 1598

p < 0.0001

r: -0.1	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	12	306
Reject	117	1163

n: 1598

p < 0.0001

r: 0.1	AOS: Normative Ethics
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	92	226
Reject	239	1041

n: 1598

p < 0.0001

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Marx
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	19	202
Reject	30	929

n: 1180

p: 0.0014

r: 0.09	AOS: Decision Theory
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	18	300
Reject	28	1252

n: 1598

p: 0.0005

r: -0.08	AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	13	305
Reject	112	1168

n: 1598

p: 0.0012

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Parfit
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	13	208
Reject	30	929

n: 1180

p: 0.0128

r: -0.07	Philosopher: Aristotle
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	33	188
Reject	194	765

n: 1180

p: 0.0204

r: -0.06	AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	19	299
Reject	132	1148

n: 1598

p: 0.0123

r: 0.06	AOS: Epistemology
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	86	232
Reject	284	996

n: 1598

p: 0.0131

r: -0.06	Philosopher: Frege
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	9	212
Reject	80	879

n: 1180

p: 0.0465

r: 0.06	Philosopher: Carnap
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	21	200
Reject	53	906

n: 1180

p: 0.0489

r: 0.06	AOS: Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	18	300
Reject	35	1245

n: 1598

p: 0.0232

r: -0.05	AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	20	298
Reject	121	1159

n: 1598

p: 0.032

r: -0.05	AOS: Metaphysics
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)	Yes	No
Accept	54	264
Reject	292	988

n: 1598

p: 0.046