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: 0.28	Race: unreal
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	22
Reject	174	1013

n: 1247

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Gender categories: eliminate
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	16
Reject	118	614

n: 773

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	23
Reject	14	533

n: 578

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Chinese room: understands
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	23
Reject	138	564

n: 741

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	25
Reject	82	575

n: 689

p: 0.0002

r: 0.14	Aesthetic experience: pleasure
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	18
Reject	70	400

n: 494

p: 0.0024

r: 0.13	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	24
Reject	86	475

n: 591

p: 0.0021

r: 0.12	Foundations of mathematics: structuralism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	19
Reject	90	298

n: 416

p: 0.016

r: 0.11	Morality: error theory
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	32
Reject	36	679

n: 754

p: 0.0017

r: 0.11	Material composition: universalism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	9
Reject	109	248

n: 374

p: 0.0312

r: 0.11	Race categories: eliminate
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	10
Reject	287	378

n: 703

p: 0.0034

r: 0.11	Meaning of life: nonexistent
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	32
Reject	198	842

n: 1089

p: 0.0003

r: 0.11	Experience machine: yes
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	47
Reject	156	1002

n: 1222

p < 0.0001

r: -0.11	Race: social
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	40	21
Reject	858	340

n: 1259

p: 0.0002

r: 0.1	Propositions: sets
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	26
Reject	46	496

n: 573

p: 0.0167

r: 0.1	Knowledge claims: relativism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	52
Reject	59	970

n: 1086

p: 0.0011

r: 0.09	Mind uploading: survival
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	18
Reject	211	463

n: 709

p: 0.0125

r: 0.09	Practical reason: Kantian
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	26
Reject	123	498

n: 659

p: 0.0193

r: -0.09	Well-being: objective list
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	16
Reject	406	253

n: 690

p: 0.0199

r: 0.09	Aim of philosophy: happiness
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	39
Reject	155	1001

n: 1207

p: 0.0023

r: 0.09	Consciousness: eliminativism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	37
Reject	33	629

n: 705

p: 0.0221

r: 0.08	Causation: nonexistent
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	25
Reject	21	606

n: 658

p: 0.0339

r: 0.08	Political philosophy: communitarianism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	27
Reject	316	706

n: 1076

p: 0.012

r: 0.07	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	31
Reject	382	776

n: 1216

p: 0.011

r: 0.07	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	39
Reject	361	884

n: 1306

p: 0.0088

r: -0.07	Moral motivation: internalism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	27
Reject	464	514

n: 1025

p: 0.0206

r: -0.07	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	33
Reject	641	605

n: 1305

p: 0.0094

r: 0.07	Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	20
Reject	536	668

n: 1257

p: 0.0112

r: 0.07	Vagueness: epistemic
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	29
Reject	245	765

n: 1059

p: 0.0208

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

n: 1303

p: 0.0118

r: 0.07	Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	32
Reject	288	889

n: 1229

p: 0.0155

r: 0.07	Aim of philosophy: understanding
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	14
Reject	731	476

n: 1259

p: 0.0159

r: -0.07	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	27
Reject	620	410

n: 1087

p: 0.0265

r: 0.06	Free will: no free will
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	54
Reject	134	1088

n: 1286

p: 0.0264

r: -0.06	Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	24
Reject	940	282

n: 1289

p: 0.031

r: -0.06	A priori knowledge: yes
Gender: unreal	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	23
Reject	958	281

n: 1303

p: 0.0366

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.07	AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Gender: unreal	Yes	No
Accept	10	59
Reject	234	1045

n: 1348

p: 0.0077

r: 0.06	Other demographics: YOB
Gender: unreal	Yes	No
Accept	37	23
Reject	573	626

n: 1259

p: 0.0488