Survey Results

Correlations

Law: legal positivism

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: -0.3
Aesthetic value: objective
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 79 138
Reject 189 111
n: 517
p < 0.0001
r: 0.29
Temporal ontology: eternalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 71 67
Reject 58 134
n: 330
p < 0.0001
r: 0.29
Practical reason: Humean
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 83 96
Reject 61 188
n: 428
p < 0.0001
r: -0.28
God: theism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 23 201
Reject 95 232
n: 551
p < 0.0001
r: 0.27
Mind: physicalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 151 75
Reject 137 169
n: 532
p < 0.0001
r: -0.27
Well-being: objective list
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 83 92
Reject 183 79
n: 437
p < 0.0001
r: -0.26
Meaning of life: objective
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 56 132
Reject 149 137
n: 474
p < 0.0001
r: -0.26
Free will: libertarianism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 26 203
Reject 91 234
n: 554
p < 0.0001
r: -0.25
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 14 134
Reject 57 158
n: 363
p < 0.0001
r: 0.25
Units of selection: genes
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 78 52
Reject 76 112
n: 318
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 141 61
Reject 124 156
n: 482
p < 0.0001
r: -0.24
Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 59 147
Reject 145 161
n: 512
p < 0.0001
r: -0.24
Temporal ontology: presentism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 24 113
Reject 53 139
n: 329
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Laws of nature: Humean
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 91 119
Reject 76 219
n: 505
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Abortion: permissible
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 191 14
Reject 219 69
n: 493
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Time: A-theory
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 46 103
Reject 71 128
n: 348
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Practical reason: Aristotelian
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 52 126
Reject 118 131
n: 427
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Material composition: universalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 36 59
Reject 37 111
n: 243
p: 0.0005
r: 0.22
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 99 108
Reject 90 214
n: 511
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 63 84
Reject 57 155
n: 359
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Time travel: metaphysically possible
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 95 80
Reject 99 153
n: 427
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 137 89
Reject 244 78
n: 548
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Other minds: future AI systems
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 96 108
Reject 105 185
n: 494
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Material composition: restrictivism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 33 62
Reject 66 82
n: 243
p: 0.0011
r: 0.21
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 156 40
Reject 174 97
n: 467
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Consciousness: dualism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 35 149
Reject 84 165
n: 433
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 60 141
Reject 139 174
n: 514
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Meaning of life: nonexistent
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 51 134
Reject 48 233
n: 466
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 153 71
Reject 251 64
n: 539
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Knowledge: empiricism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 131 61
Reject 134 128
n: 454
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Mind uploading: survival
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 62 109
Reject 61 207
n: 439
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Belief or credence: belief
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 36 116
Reject 84 109
n: 345
p: 0.001
r: 0.17
Well-being: desire satisfaction
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 47 128
Reject 51 212
n: 438
p: 0.0002
r: 0.17
Foundations of mathematics: logicism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 23 91
Reject 18 144
n: 276
p: 0.0036
r: 0.17
Morality: error theory
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 19 172
Reject 8 270
n: 469
p: 0.0002
r: -0.17
Abstract objects: Platonism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 79 134
Reject 142 146
n: 501
p: 0.0002
r: 0.16
Properties: tropes
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 34 105
Reject 24 176
n: 339
p: 0.003
r: 0.16
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 154 74
Reject 180 145
n: 553
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Concepts: nativism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 38 117
Reject 79 137
n: 371
p: 0.002
r: -0.16
Properties: immanent universals
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 25 114
Reject 61 139
n: 339
p: 0.0034
r: 0.16
Free will: no free will
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 37 193
Reject 20 305
n: 555
p: 0.0002
r: -0.16
Arguments for theism: cosmological
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 39 129
Reject 73 178
n: 419
p: 0.0012
r: 0.16
Meaning of life: subjective
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 90 98
Reject 89 196
n: 473
p: 0.0006
r: 0.16
Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 33 142
Reject 28 235
n: 438
p: 0.001
r: 0.16
Morality: expressivism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 36 158
Reject 24 255
n: 473
p: 0.0006
r: -0.16
Principle of sufficient reason: true
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 66 116
Reject 101 151
n: 434
p: 0.0011
r: 0.15
Chinese room: understands
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 43 147
Reject 42 216
n: 448
p: 0.0012
r: -0.15
Aim of philosophy: happiness
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 22 168
Reject 57 255
n: 502
p: 0.0007
r: 0.15
Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 74 96
Reject 67 163
n: 400
p: 0.0027
r: 0.15
Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 159 69
Reject 195 130
n: 553
p: 0.0004
r: 0.15
Free will: compatibilism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 160 70
Reject 202 123
n: 555
p: 0.0004
r: 0.15
Properties: nonexistent
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 17 120
Reject 19 181
n: 337
p: 0.0066
r: -0.15
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 43 154
Reject 101 212
n: 510
p: 0.0009
r: -0.15
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 68 117
Reject 136 140
n: 461
p: 0.0016
r: 0.14
Plato: knowledge only of forms
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 78 47
Reject 101 95
n: 321
p: 0.0099
r: -0.14
Capital punishment: permissible
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 30 180
Reject 67 228
n: 505
p: 0.0014
r: 0.14
Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 10 155
Reject 9 212
n: 386
p: 0.0053
r: 0.14
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 53 175
Reject 52 271
n: 551
p: 0.0009
r: -0.14
Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 57 79
Reject 102 109
n: 347
p: 0.0099
r: 0.14
Truth: deflationary
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 74 140
Reject 67 215
n: 496
p: 0.0023
r: 0.13
Consciousness: identity theory
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 42 143
Reject 30 219
n: 434
p: 0.007
r: 0.13
Foundations of mathematics: formalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 11 104
Reject 9 152
n: 276
p: 0.0328
r: 0.13
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 89 139
Reject 108 217
n: 553
p: 0.0028
r: -0.13
Political philosophy: communitarianism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 46 150
Reject 107 185
n: 488
p: 0.0056
r: 0.12
Moral principles: moral generalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 129 61
Reject 159 114
n: 463
p: 0.0076
r: -0.12
Gender: biological
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 57 145
Reject 116 191
n: 509
p: 0.0051
r: 0.12
Values in science: can be either
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 72 113
Reject 79 197
n: 461
p: 0.0086
r: -0.12
Kant: one world
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 54 78
Reject 111 98
n: 341
p: 0.0253
r: 0.12
Consciousness: functionalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 73 112
Reject 73 176
n: 434
p: 0.0119
r: 0.12
Gender categories: eliminate
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 35 144
Reject 42 230
n: 451
p: 0.0109
r: 0.12
Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 50 77
Reject 59 122
n: 308
p: 0.0361
r: 0.12
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 30 140
Reject 27 198
n: 395
p: 0.0184
r: 0.12
Vagueness: semantic
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 128 72
Reject 131 137
n: 468
p: 0.0121
r: -0.11
Propositions: simple entities
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 8 139
Reject 22 177
n: 346
p: 0.0337
r: 0.11
Trolley problem: switch
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 176 36
Reject 193 79
n: 484
p: 0.012
r: 0.11
Belief or credence: credence
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 60 92
Reject 57 136
n: 345
p: 0.0377
r: 0.11
Aesthetic experience: pleasure
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 29 108
Reject 32 180
n: 349
p: 0.0368
r: 0.11
Propositions: sets
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 18 129
Reject 13 185
n: 345
p: 0.0387
r: 0.11
Experience machine: yes
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 44 184
Reject 31 277
n: 536
p: 0.01
r: -0.11
Morality: non-naturalism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 49 143
Reject 92 186
n: 470
p: 0.0167
r: -0.11
Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 122 74
Reject 186 76
n: 458
p: 0.0185
r: -0.11
Analysis of knowledge: justified true belief
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 44 153
Reject 85 180
n: 462
p: 0.0188
r: 0.11
Consciousness: eliminativism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 11 172
Reject 9 240
n: 432
p: 0.0245
r: -0.11
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 112 116
Reject 184 139
n: 551
p: 0.0114
r: 0.11
Footbridge: push
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 69 148
Reject 66 227
n: 510
p: 0.0159
r: -0.1
Gender categories: preserve
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 31 147
Reject 78 193
n: 449
p: 0.0367
r: 0.1
Zombies: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 97 104
Reject 114 175
n: 490
p: 0.0322
r: -0.1
Personal identity: further-fact view
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 31 160
Reject 57 207
n: 455
p: 0.0408
r: 0.09
Knowledge claims: relativism
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 13 184
Reject 9 266
n: 472
p: 0.0435
r: -0.09
Normative ethics: deontology
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 80 128
Reject 145 160
n: 513
p: 0.04
r: 0.09
Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Law: legal positivism Accept Reject
Accept 109 119
Reject 134 191
n: 553
p: 0.0444

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.21
Philosopher: Aristotle
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 23 168
Reject 73 197
n: 461
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Philosopher: Hume
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 47 144
Reject 29 241
n: 461
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Other demographics: YOB
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 108 124
Reject 130 192
n: 554
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Philosopher: Lewis
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 27 164
Reject 18 252
n: 461
p: 0.0007
r: -0.16
Tradition: Other tradition
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 13 222
Reject 40 288
n: 563
p: 0.0002
r: 0.15
Tradition: Analytic
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 211 24
Reject 271 57
n: 563
p: 0.0004
r: 0.15
Philosopher: Quine
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 20 171
Reject 16 254
n: 461
p: 0.0013
r: 0.14
Philosopher: Hobbes
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 8 183
Reject 1 269
n: 461
p: 0.0031
r: -0.13
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 12 229
Reject 32 306
n: 579
p: 0.0015
r: 0.12
AOS: Decision Theory
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 12 229
Reject 2 336
n: 579
p: 0.0026
r: -0.12
Philosopher: Plato
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 6 185
Reject 26 244
n: 461
p: 0.0077
r: 0.11
Philosopher: Nāgārjuna
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 6 185
Reject 1 269
n: 461
p: 0.0144
r: 0.11
AOS: Philosophy of Biology
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 14 227
Reject 8 330
n: 579
p: 0.0113
r: 0.1
AOS: Philosophy of Social Science
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 19 222
Reject 8 330
n: 579
p: 0.0122
r: 0.1
AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 25 216
Reject 16 322
n: 579
p: 0.0197
r: 0.1
Philosopher: Spinoza
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 8 183
Reject 3 267
n: 461
p: 0.0385
r: -0.1
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 10 181
Reject 30 240
n: 461
p: 0.041
r: 0.09
AOS: Philosophy of Mind
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 51 190
Reject 56 282
n: 579
p: 0.0243
r: -0.09
Region of affiliation: United States
Law: legal positivism Yes No
Accept 134 109
Reject 207 131
n: 581
p: 0.0354