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: -0.15	Consciousness: eliminativism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	31	660
Reject	7	47

n: 745

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	External world: idealism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	53	851
Reject	10	69

n: 983

p < 0.0001

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

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	451	452
Reject	56	23

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Foundations of mathematics: set-theoretic
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	334
Reject	6	28

n: 438

p: 0.0079

r: -0.13	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	278	360
Reject	32	29

n: 699

p: 0.0008

r: -0.13	Experience machine: yes
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	108	751
Reject	15	53

n: 927

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Analysis of knowledge: justified true belief
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	179	566
Reject	17	37

n: 799

p: 0.0005

r: 0.12	Propositions: structured entities
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	244	314
Reject	14	28

n: 600

p: 0.0028

r: -0.12	Material composition: nihilism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	353
Reject	5	25

n: 415

p: 0.0156

r: -0.12	Arguments for theism: moral
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	583
Reject	9	38

n: 694

p: 0.0018

r: -0.11	God: theism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	180	725
Reject	31	51

n: 987

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	247	454
Reject	28	23

n: 752

p: 0.0018

r: -0.11	Theory of reference: deflationary
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	94	503
Reject	11	35

n: 643

p: 0.0056

r: -0.11	Temporal ontology: growing block
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	100	439
Reject	11	24

n: 574

p: 0.0099

r: -0.11	True contradictions: actual
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	91	604
Reject	9	40

n: 744

p: 0.0034

r: 0.11	True contradictions: impossible
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	533	162
Reject	34	15

n: 744

p: 0.0036

r: -0.1	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	120	607
Reject	16	51

n: 794

p: 0.0052

r: 0.1	Human genetic engineering: permissible
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	530	206
Reject	39	23

n: 798

p: 0.0053

r: -0.1	Spacetime: relationism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	215	229
Reject	22	17

n: 483

p: 0.0306

r: -0.1	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	104	480
Reject	16	35

n: 635

p: 0.0154

r: 0.1	Units of selection: genes
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	234	229
Reject	15	19

n: 497

p: 0.0325

r: 0.09	External world: non-skeptical realism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	783	119
Reject	64	15

n: 981

p: 0.0037

r: -0.09	Arguments for theism: ontological
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	575
Reject	10	36

n: 690

p: 0.0162

r: -0.09	Propositions: nonexistent
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	465
Reject	10	32

n: 599

p: 0.0258

r: -0.09	Vagueness: epistemic
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	198	583
Reject	23	40

n: 844

p: 0.009

r: 0.09	Concepts: nativism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	198	369
Reject	13	37

n: 617

p: 0.0256

r: 0.09	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	328	510
Reject	14	55

n: 907

p: 0.0075

r: 0.09	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	380	353
Reject	24	43

n: 800

p: 0.0121

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	495	414
Reject	36	43

n: 988

p: 0.0061

r: 0.09	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	439	210
Reject	33	24

n: 706

p: 0.0212

r: -0.09	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	148	334
Reject	14	31

n: 527

p: 0.0466

r: 0.09	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	492	249
Reject	30	21

n: 792

p: 0.0157

r: -0.09	Arguments for theism: pragmatic
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	103	540
Reject	11	35

n: 689

p: 0.0245

r: 0.08	Temporal ontology: eternalism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	241	300
Reject	7	28

n: 576

p: 0.0441

r: 0.08	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	407	502
Reject	23	56

n: 988

p: 0.0086

r: 0.08	Time travel: metaphysically possible
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	323	361
Reject	16	42

n: 742

p: 0.0237

r: -0.08	Gender: biological
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	265	534
Reject	32	46

n: 877

p: 0.0144

r: -0.08	Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	612
Reject	5	46

n: 696

p: 0.0301

r: -0.08	Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	529
Reject	5	38

n: 614

p: 0.0454

r: -0.08	Philosophical knowledge: none
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	749
Reject	4	56

n: 836

p: 0.0277

r: -0.08	Philosophical progress: none
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	880
Reject	6	74

n: 988

p: 0.0174

r: -0.08	Chinese room: understands
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	138	580
Reject	12	41

n: 771

p: 0.036

r: -0.08	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	159	506
Reject	13	38

n: 716

p: 0.0448

r: 0.07	Gender: social
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	573	236
Reject	48	29

n: 886

p: 0.0273

r: 0.07	Vagueness: semantic
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	447	338
Reject	32	31

n: 848

p: 0.0335

r: 0.07	Abstract objects: Platonism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	361	438
Reject	27	41

n: 867

p: 0.032

r: -0.07	Morality: constructivism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	159	583
Reject	17	40

n: 799

p: 0.0398

r: -0.07	Personal identity: biological view
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	565
Reject	16	42

n: 805

p: 0.0396

r: 0.07	Abortion: permissible
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	680	126
Reject	46	17

n: 869

p: 0.0335

r: 0.07	Science: scientific realism
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	694	167
Reject	55	22

n: 938

p: 0.0325

r: 0.07	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	594	315
Reject	44	35

n: 988

p: 0.0289

r: 0.07	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	599	291
Reject	52	28

n: 970

p: 0.0406

r: 0.07	A priori knowledge: yes
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	726	181
Reject	60	21

n: 988

p: 0.0391

r: -0.07	Normative ethics: deontology
Other minds: cats	Accept	Reject
Accept	309	529
Reject	32	37

n: 907

p: 0.0485

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.15	Tradition: Analytic
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	828	112
Reject	55	25

n: 1020

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	AOS: Philosophy of Mind
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	215	734
Reject	7	75

n: 1031

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Tradition: Continental
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	38	902
Reject	10	70

n: 1020

p: 0.0002

r: -0.1	Tradition: Other tradition
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	74	866
Reject	15	65

n: 1020

p: 0.0016

r: -0.09	Philosopher: Arendt
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	7	712
Reject	3	66

n: 788

p: 0.0079

r: -0.09	Region of affiliation: Europe
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	129	825
Reject	21	63

n: 1038

p: 0.0033

r: -0.09	Region of nationality: Europe
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	160	737
Reject	24	57

n: 978

p: 0.0046

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Heidegger
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	12	707
Reject	4	65

n: 788

p: 0.0215

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Putnam
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	33	686
Reject	0	69

n: 788

p: 0.0219

r: 0.08	AOS: Metaphysics
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	246	703
Reject	13	69

n: 1031

p: 0.0111

r: -0.08	AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	83	866
Reject	13	69

n: 1031

p: 0.0145

r: -0.07	AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	25	924
Reject	6	76

n: 1031

p: 0.0179

r: 0.07	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	94	855
Reject	5	77

n: 1031

p: 0.0221

r: -0.07	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Other minds: cats	Yes	No
Accept	32	917
Reject	7	75

n: 1031

p: 0.0334