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: 0.36	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	108	225
Reject	21	271

n: 625

p < 0.0001

r: 0.35	God: theism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	159	325
Reject	49	446

n: 979

p < 0.0001

r: -0.35	Abortion: permissible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	305	114
Reject	409	31

n: 859

p < 0.0001

r: 0.29	Meaning of life: objective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	220	192
Reject	126	295

n: 833

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Consciousness: dualism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	239
Reject	60	302

n: 735

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Mind: physicalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	213	240
Reject	311	161

n: 925

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Politics: capitalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	180	201
Reject	96	289

n: 766

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	145	119
Reject	88	175

n: 527

p < 0.0001

r: -0.23	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	186	209
Reject	273	148

n: 816

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	285	99
Reject	218	176

n: 778

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	88	245
Reject	119	172

n: 624

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	True contradictions: impossible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	322	57
Reject	237	103

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	88
Reject	58	118

n: 366

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Abstract objects: Platonism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	223	196
Reject	157	289

n: 865

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	130	202
Reject	74	268

n: 674

p < 0.0001

r: -0.2	Meaning of life: subjective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	132	281
Reject	189	233

n: 835

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	382	79
Reject	311	156

n: 928

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	A priori knowledge: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	408	72
Reject	363	140

n: 983

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Gender categories: preserve
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	253
Reject	60	313

n: 731

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Truth: correspondence
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	295	138
Reject	227	221

n: 881

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Metaontology: anti-realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	239
Reject	47	215

n: 525

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	358	110
Reject	298	180

n: 946

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Free will: libertarianism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	129	343
Reject	74	429

n: 975

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Propositional attitudes: representational
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	175	115
Reject	136	183

n: 609

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Gender: social
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	252	156
Reject	341	114

n: 863

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Morality: non-naturalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	147	248
Reject	84	296

n: 775

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	244
Reject	56	276

n: 704

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Gender: biological
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	160	248
Reject	127	323

n: 858

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Aesthetic value: objective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	260	178
Reject	201	257

n: 896

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	154
Reject	79	196

n: 540

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	True contradictions: actual
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	345
Reject	52	288

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Knowledge: empiricism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	188	189
Reject	258	142

n: 777

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	269
Reject	84	206

n: 622

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	290	175
Reject	236	268

n: 969

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Justification: coherentism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	268
Reject	111	232

n: 675

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Gender categories: revise
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	173	186
Reject	223	151

n: 733

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Truth: deflationary
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	101	332
Reject	147	300

n: 880

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	367
Reject	20	320

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Concepts: nativism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	127	163
Reject	82	236

n: 608

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Meaning of life: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	333
Reject	108	312

n: 825

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Morality: constructivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	332
Reject	106	277

n: 779

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Chinese room: understands
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	68	333
Reject	92	270

n: 763

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Capital punishment: permissible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	318
Reject	64	380

n: 864

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Personal identity: further-fact view
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	298
Reject	56	348

n: 804

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	145	238
Reject	114	309

n: 806

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	243
Reject	21	290

n: 593

p: 0.0004

r: -0.14	Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	190
Reject	50	176

n: 436

p: 0.0025

r: -0.14	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	197
Reject	95	166

n: 525

p: 0.0011

r: 0.14	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	244	88
Reject	214	143

n: 689

p: 0.0002

r: -0.14	Laws of nature: Humean
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	114	310
Reject	162	280

n: 866

p < 0.0001

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

n: 736

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	53	229
Reject	104	207

n: 593

p: 0.0011

r: 0.13	Science: scientific realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	392	65
Reject	348	111

n: 916

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Truth: epistemic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	402
Reject	55	393

n: 880

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	189	195
Reject	254	171

n: 809

p: 0.0004

r: -0.13	Morality: expressivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	368
Reject	54	329

n: 780

p: 0.0005

r: -0.12	External world: skepticism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	458
Reject	37	458

n: 979

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Consciousness: identity theory
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	326
Reject	67	296

n: 735

p: 0.0012

r: -0.12	Other minds: current AI systems
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	405
Reject	16	409

n: 841

p: 0.0007

r: 0.11	Sleeping beauty: one-third
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	62	96
Reject	38	109

n: 305

p: 0.0449

r: -0.11	Consciousness: eliminativism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	361
Reject	27	336

n: 734

p: 0.0018

r: -0.11	Free will: compatibilism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	276	198
Reject	338	165

n: 977

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Material composition: universalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	157
Reject	60	121

n: 410

p: 0.0231

r: 0.11	Hume: skeptic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	133	180
Reject	122	232

n: 667

p: 0.0037

r: -0.11	Spacetime: relationism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	104	135
Reject	127	106

n: 472

p: 0.0155

r: -0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	286
Reject	95	247

n: 698

p: 0.0033

r: -0.11	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	238
Reject	55	210

n: 533

p: 0.0107

r: 0.11	Material composition: restrictivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	106	123
Reject	67	114

n: 410

p: 0.0256

r: 0.11	Arguments for theism: design
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	267
Reject	48	284

n: 704

p: 0.0034

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	281
Reject	35	306

n: 692

p: 0.0039

r: -0.11	Other minds: plants
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	388
Reject	36	389

n: 841

p: 0.0016

r: 0.11	Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	108	160
Reject	97	210

n: 575

p: 0.0101

r: 0.11	Properties: transcendent universals
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	80	220
Reject	42	227

n: 569

p: 0.011

r: -0.1	Properties: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	276
Reject	33	235

n: 567

p: 0.0127

r: -0.1	Philosophical knowledge: none
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	411
Reject	19	395

n: 832

p: 0.003

r: 0.1	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	334	134
Reject	321	169

n: 958

p: 0.0016

r: 0.1	Zombies: metaphysically possible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	149	281
Reject	109	322

n: 861

p: 0.0029

r: -0.1	Causation: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	312
Reject	22	312

n: 656

p: 0.0093

r: -0.1	Propositional attitudes: dispositional
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	79	209
Reject	132	187

n: 607

p: 0.0144

r: 0.1	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	156	222
Reject	114	246

n: 738

p: 0.0082

r: -0.1	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	302
Reject	58	300

n: 705

p: 0.0102

r: -0.1	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	284
Reject	86	281

n: 695

p: 0.0111

r: -0.1	Consciousness: functionalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	243
Reject	150	215

n: 736

p: 0.009

r: 0.09	Arguments for theism: moral
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	309
Reject	20	311

n: 700

p: 0.012

r: 0.09	Foundations of mathematics: set-theoretic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	168
Reject	35	190

n: 437

p: 0.0498

r: -0.09	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	188
Reject	220	193

n: 783

p: 0.0087

r: 0.09	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	157	175
Reject	142	213

n: 687

p: 0.0145

r: 0.09	External world: non-skeptical realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	426	59
Reject	421	72

n: 978

p: 0.0036

r: 0.09	Moral principles: moral generalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	225	134
Reject	209	178

n: 746

p: 0.0118

r: 0.09	Race categories: preserve
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	291
Reject	25	323

n: 668

p: 0.0188

r: -0.09	Moral motivation: internalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	153	221
Reject	196	217

n: 787

p: 0.012

r: -0.09	Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	191
Reject	82	193

n: 538

p: 0.0383

r: 0.09	Analysis of knowledge: other analysis
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	150	247
Reject	112	276

n: 785

p: 0.0124

r: -0.09	Personal identity: psychological view
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	195	207
Reject	221	188

n: 811

p: 0.0114

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	303	162
Reject	284	220

n: 969

p: 0.0058

r: -0.09	Philosophical progress: none
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	471
Reject	22	478

n: 980

p: 0.0056

r: 0.09	Propositions: simple entities
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	275
Reject	17	264

n: 586

p: 0.0378

r: -0.09	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	368
Reject	149	349

n: 971

p: 0.008

r: -0.08	Morality: naturalist realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	263
Reject	135	250

n: 782

p: 0.0206

r: 0.08	Philosophical progress: a lot
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	248	232
Reject	218	283

n: 981

p: 0.0095

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.26	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	85	407
Reject	18	513

n: 1023

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Philosopher: Aquinas
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	37	333
Reject	7	403

n: 780

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Region of nationality: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	281	181
Reject	239	269

n: 970

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Gender: female
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	56	425
Reject	118	409

n: 1008

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Gender: male
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	423	58
Reject	408	119

n: 1008

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Region of nationality: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	70	392
Reject	124	384

n: 970

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Other demographics: YOB
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	250	206
Reject	224	280

n: 960

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Philosopher: Augustine
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	355
Reject	3	407

n: 780

p: 0.0003

r: 0.13	Region of affiliation: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	320	175
Reject	281	251

n: 1027

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	26	466
Reject	8	523

n: 1023

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Region of PhD: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	283	103
Reject	241	133

n: 760

p: 0.0009

r: 0.12	Philosopher: Kierkegaard
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	9	361
Reject	0	410

n: 780

p: 0.0009

r: -0.11	Region of affiliation: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	60	435
Reject	97	435

n: 1027

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Region of PhD: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	359
Reject	48	326

n: 760

p: 0.0026

r: 0.11	Philosopher: Descartes
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	24	346
Reject	12	398

n: 780

p: 0.0025

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Reid
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	355
Reject	5	405

n: 780

p: 0.0043

r: -0.1	Tradition: Continental
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	13	469
Reject	35	486

n: 1003

p: 0.0015

r: 0.1	AOS: Metaphysics
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	143	349
Reject	106	425

n: 1023

p: 0.0015

r: -0.1	AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	10	482
Reject	31	500

n: 1023

p: 0.0021

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Plato
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	343
Reject	18	392

n: 780

p: 0.0101

r: 0.09	Tradition: Analytic
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	435	47
Reject	436	85

n: 1003

p: 0.004

r: 0.09	Region of affiliation: Asia
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	24	471
Reject	11	521

n: 1027

p: 0.0042

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	25	345
Reject	46	364

n: 780

p: 0.0203

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Kant
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	40	330
Reject	64	346

n: 780

p: 0.0305

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Moore
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	19	351
Reject	11	399

n: 780

p: 0.0311

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Leibniz
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	19	351
Reject	10	400

n: 780

p: 0.0377

r: -0.07	AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	21	471
Reject	48	483

n: 1023

p: 0.0182

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Russell
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	36	334
Reject	20	390

n: 780

p: 0.0458

r: -0.07	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	36	456
Reject	60	471

n: 1023

p: 0.0232

r: 0.07	Region of nationality: Asia
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	447
Reject	6	502

n: 970

p: 0.0295

r: -0.07	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	11	481
Reject	31	500

n: 1023

p: 0.0261

r: 0.07	AOS: Normative Ethics
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	126	366
Reject	110	421

n: 1023

p: 0.0365