Survey Results

Correlations

Category

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: -0.33	True contradictions: impossible
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	211	111
Reject	277	37

n: 636

p < 0.0001

r: 0.3	True contradictions: actual
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	256
Reject	19	295

n: 636

p < 0.0001

r: 0.29	Other minds: plants
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	355
Reject	14	332

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Other minds: current AI systems
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	376
Reject	5	341

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: -0.27	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	166
Reject	131	98

n: 481

p < 0.0001

r: 0.26	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	297
Reject	7	307

n: 636

p < 0.0001

r: -0.25	Truth: correspondence
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	206	203
Reject	252	102

n: 763

p < 0.0001

r: 0.25	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	202	173
Reject	92	212

n: 679

p < 0.0001

r: 0.25	Morality: constructivism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	262
Reject	46	279

n: 697

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Chinese room: understands
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	251
Reject	46	280

n: 687

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	101	149
Reject	48	181

n: 479

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Other minds: future AI systems
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	211	190
Reject	112	234

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Gender: social
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	335	96
Reject	193	131

n: 755

p < 0.0001

r: -0.23	Consciousness: dualism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	291
Reject	111	207

n: 669

p < 0.0001

r: 0.23	Abortion: permissible
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	369	35
Reject	268	82

n: 754

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	286
Reject	43	208

n: 551

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Morality: non-naturalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	300
Reject	122	203

n: 694

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Consciousness: functionalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	172	179
Reject	88	230

n: 669

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Values in science: necessarily value-free
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	325
Reject	85	219

n: 679

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	248
Reject	69	214

n: 559

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	71	254
Reject	112	174

n: 611

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Gender categories: preserve
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	52	300
Reject	84	207

n: 643

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Logic: classical
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	190	150
Reject	228	78

n: 646

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	150	172
Reject	89	207

n: 618

p < 0.0001

r: -0.2	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	96	294
Reject	140	203

n: 733

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Truth: deflationary
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	133	274
Reject	81	273

n: 761

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Laws of nature: Humean
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	171	250
Reject	83	272

n: 776

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Truth: epistemic
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	347
Reject	19	335

n: 760

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Spacetime: relationism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	141	89
Reject	82	133

n: 445

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	254	138
Reject	153	191

n: 736

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	267	187
Reject	287	89

n: 830

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Epistemic justification: internalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	137	286
Reject	173	179

n: 775

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Mind: physicalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	279	153
Reject	193	177

n: 802

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	96	204
Reject	46	205

n: 551

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Gender: biological
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	120	307
Reject	131	192

n: 750

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Other minds: particles
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	391
Reject	6	340

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Propositions: sets
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	241
Reject	21	251

n: 545

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Consciousness: panpsychism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	314
Reject	15	303

n: 670

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	210	252
Reject	234	140

n: 836

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Gender categories: revise
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	222	129
Reject	133	159

n: 643

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Science: scientific realism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	331	106
Reject	324	51

n: 812

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	241
Reject	57	255

n: 645

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Mind uploading: survival
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	137	224
Reject	85	238

n: 684

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	A priori knowledge: yes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	332	124
Reject	329	60

n: 845

p < 0.0001

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

n: 612

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Time: A-theory
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	74	205
Reject	100	175

n: 554

p: 0.0002

r: -0.16	Capital punishment: permissible
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	338
Reject	81	263

n: 742

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Quantum mechanics: many-worlds
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	150
Reject	27	161

n: 401

p: 0.0019

r: 0.15	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	259	141
Reject	165	161

n: 726

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	80	267
Reject	38	249

n: 634

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Mental content: internalism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	98	301
Reject	124	221

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Concepts: nativism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	213
Reject	105	152

n: 562

p: 0.0005

r: 0.15	Meaning of life: subjective
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	206
Reject	106	222

n: 716

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	299
Reject	65	243

n: 639

p: 0.0002

r: 0.15	Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	280
Reject	113	261

n: 836

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Other minds: worms
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	123	278
Reject	73	273

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Properties: transcendent universals
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	218
Reject	77	185

n: 522

p: 0.0009

r: 0.14	Possible worlds: concrete
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	345
Reject	11	333

n: 716

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Free will: compatibilism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	315	143
Reject	232	153

n: 843

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	198
Reject	137	135

n: 604

p: 0.0004

r: 0.14	Kant: one world
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	143	122
Reject	85	124

n: 474

p: 0.0019

r: 0.14	Justification: coherentism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	98	227
Reject	62	225

n: 612

p: 0.0004

r: -0.14	Immortality: yes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	176	225
Reject	182	153

n: 736

p: 0.0002

r: -0.14	God: theism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	71	374
Reject	98	288

n: 831

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	104
Reject	75	95

n: 340

p: 0.0128

r: -0.13	Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	97	193
Reject	76	136

n: 502

p: 0.0026

r: -0.13	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	300	129
Reject	297	82

n: 808

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Properties: classes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	220
Reject	22	239

n: 520

p: 0.0022

r: 0.13	Theory of reference: deflationary
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	244
Reject	32	242

n: 582

p: 0.0012

r: -0.13	Propositional attitudes: representational
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	151	170
Reject	156	107

n: 584

p: 0.0012

r: 0.13	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	219	243
Reject	146	228

n: 836

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Hume: skeptic
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	118	208
Reject	111	159

n: 596

p: 0.0012

r: -0.13	Free will: libertarianism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	381
Reject	93	292

n: 841

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Race: social
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	327	110
Reject	214	117

n: 768

p: 0.0003

r: 0.13	Metaontology: anti-realism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	209
Reject	24	204

n: 478

p: 0.0049

r: 0.13	Knowledge: empiricism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	232	139
Reject	152	159

n: 682

p: 0.0008

r: 0.13	Propositions: acts
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	245
Reject	23	249

n: 545

p: 0.003

r: -0.13	Abstract objects: Platonism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	167	238
Reject	183	171

n: 759

p: 0.0005

r: 0.13	Vagueness: metaphysical
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	98	286
Reject	59	282

n: 725

p: 0.0007

r: -0.12	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	225	230
Reject	228	155

n: 838

p: 0.0003

r: 0.12	Material composition: nihilism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	158
Reject	15	194

n: 385

p: 0.0148

r: 0.12	Arguments for theism: pragmatic
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	247
Reject	37	243

n: 593

p: 0.003

r: -0.12	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	227	149
Reject	229	108

n: 713

p: 0.0012

r: 0.12	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	58	217
Reject	37	247

n: 559

p: 0.0043

r: -0.12	Race categories: preserve
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	311
Reject	29	233

n: 597

p: 0.0034

r: -0.12	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	65	250
Reject	87	199

n: 601

p: 0.0037

r: 0.12	Belief or credence: credence
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	95	179
Reject	78	185

n: 537

p: 0.0064

r: 0.12	Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	48	169
Reject	18	167

n: 402

p: 0.0198

r: 0.12	Personal identity: psychological view
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	213	170
Reject	161	173

n: 717

p: 0.0018

r: -0.12	Theory of reference: descriptive
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	243
Reject	79	201

n: 590

p: 0.0049

r: 0.11	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	328	134
Reject	224	150

n: 836

p: 0.0009

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	285
Reject	30	276

n: 636

p: 0.0045

r: -0.11	Quantum mechanics: hidden-variables
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	170
Reject	55	134

n: 401

p: 0.0257

r: 0.11	Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	229
Reject	104	235

n: 702

p: 0.0032

r: 0.11	Justification: reliabilism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	139	185
Reject	92	196

n: 612

p: 0.0068

r: 0.11	External world: idealism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	417
Reject	23	368

n: 841

p: 0.0016

r: -0.11	Race: biological
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	351
Reject	79	252

n: 768

p: 0.0027

r: 0.11	Consciousness: eliminativism
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	322
Reject	12	306

n: 667

p: 0.0055

r: 0.11	Experience machine: yes
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	82	350
Reject	41	327

n: 800

p: 0.0027

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Extended mind: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	291
Reject	24	282

n: 639

p: 0.0076

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.18	Philosopher: Aquinas
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	7	380
Reject	23	260

n: 670

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	AOS: Metaphysics
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	91	391
Reject	130	267

n: 879

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Tradition: Analytic
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	395	82
Reject	360	30

n: 867

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Philosopher: Merleau-Ponty
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	13	374
Reject	0	283

n: 670

p: 0.0004

r: 0.13	Tradition: Other tradition
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	55	422
Reject	20	370

n: 867

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Gender: male
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	376	99
Reject	340	51

n: 866

p: 0.0002

r: 0.12	Gender: female
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	97	378
Reject	51	340

n: 866

p: 0.0003

r: -0.12	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	30	452
Reject	51	346

n: 879

p: 0.0005

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Leibniz
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	8	379
Reject	15	268

n: 670

p: 0.0037

r: 0.11	Philosopher: Hegel
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	19	368
Reject	3	280

n: 670

p: 0.0047

r: 0.11	AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	74	408
Reject	38	359

n: 879

p: 0.0013

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Descartes
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	10	377
Reject	21	262

n: 670

p: 0.0052

r: 0.11	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	33	449
Reject	9	388

n: 879

p: 0.0017

r: -0.1	Philosopher: Aristotle
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	63	324
Reject	62	221

n: 670

p: 0.0069

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Beauvoir
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	11	376
Reject	1	282

n: 670

p: 0.0074

r: -0.1	Philosopher: Russell
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	24	363
Reject	31	252

n: 670

p: 0.0075

r: -0.1	Region of affiliation: United States
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	254	231
Reject	248	149

n: 882

p: 0.003

r: 0.1	AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	455
Reject	8	389

n: 879

p: 0.0032

r: -0.1	Region of PhD: United States
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	223	134
Reject	224	83

n: 664

p: 0.0117

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Arendt
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	6	381
Reject	0	283

n: 670

p: 0.0135

r: -0.09	AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	9	473
Reject	20	377

n: 879

p: 0.0063

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Kant
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	59	328
Reject	29	254

n: 670

p: 0.0186

r: 0.09	Region of PhD: Oceania
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	26	331
Reject	11	296

n: 664

p: 0.0197

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Quine
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	45	342
Reject	22	261

n: 670

p: 0.0197

r: -0.09	Philosopher: Moore
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	8	379
Reject	19	264

n: 670

p: 0.0233

r: 0.09	Tradition: Continental
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	450
Reject	10	380

n: 867

p: 0.0108

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Spinoza
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	14	373
Reject	5	278

n: 670

p: 0.0306

r: 0.08	AOS: Applied Ethics
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	68	414
Reject	38	359

n: 879

p: 0.0136

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Plato
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	372
Reject	22	261

n: 670

p: 0.0315

r: 0.08	AOS: Philosophy of Social Science
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	455
Reject	10	387

n: 879

p: 0.0137

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Rorty
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	5	382
Reject	0	283

n: 670

p: 0.0319

r: -0.08	AOS: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	12	470
Reject	26	371

n: 879

p: 0.0187

r: 0.07	AOS: Asian Philosophy
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	17	465
Reject	3	394

n: 879

p: 0.029

r: -0.07	Region of nationality: United States
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	216	235
Reject	213	163

n: 827

p: 0.046

r: 0.07	AOS: Philosophy of the Americas
Extended mind: yes	Yes	No
Accept	5	477
Reject	1	396

n: 879

p: 0.0415