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: -0.17	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	95	153
Reject	215	236

n: 699

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Consciousness: panpsychism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	229
Reject	20	460

n: 748

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	107	119
Reject	173	259

n: 658

p: 0.001

r: -0.13	Units of selection: genes
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	102
Reject	180	146

n: 497

p: 0.005

r: -0.12	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	158	195
Reject	349	280

n: 982

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Politics: capitalism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	83	182
Reject	186	310

n: 761

p: 0.0009

r: 0.12	Foundations of mathematics: logicism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	127
Reject	32	252

n: 435

p: 0.0133

r: 0.11	Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	267
Reject	112	517

n: 982

p: 0.0004

r: -0.11	Spacetime: relationism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	68	97
Reject	169	149

n: 483

p: 0.0142

r: -0.11	Proper names: Fregean
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	87	150
Reject	199	260

n: 696

p: 0.0036

r: -0.11	Gender: biological
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	92	220
Reject	205	360

n: 877

p: 0.0016

r: 0.1	Extended mind: yes
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	159	115
Reject	242	231

n: 747

p: 0.0045

r: 0.1	Gender: social
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	244	72
Reject	377	193

n: 886

p: 0.002

r: -0.1	Vagueness: epistemic
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	57	242
Reject	164	381

n: 844

p: 0.0031

r: 0.1	Morality: naturalist realism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	177
Reject	165	355

n: 799

p: 0.0042

r: -0.1	Perceptual experience: qualia theory
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	222
Reject	95	343

n: 699

p: 0.0084

r: 0.1	Political philosophy: communitarianism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	98	185
Reject	151	362

n: 796

p: 0.005

r: -0.1	Philosophical progress: a little
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	169	190
Reject	324	306

n: 989

p: 0.0018

r: -0.1	Propositional attitudes: representational
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	113
Reject	212	190

n: 626

p: 0.0137

r: -0.1	Practical reason: Humean
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	159
Reject	154	279

n: 659

p: 0.0119

r: -0.1	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	249
Reject	101	409

n: 794

p: 0.0061

r: -0.09	Properties: transcendent universals
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	159
Reject	92	283

n: 573

p: 0.0301

r: -0.08	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	191
Reject	81	324

n: 635

p: 0.0332

r: -0.08	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	205
Reject	42	332

n: 598

p: 0.0446

r: 0.08	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	155
Reject	90	284

n: 598

p: 0.0455

r: 0.08	Causation: process/production
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	166
Reject	108	343

n: 684

p: 0.0339

r: -0.08	Normative ethics: deontology
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	116	211
Reject	225	355

n: 907

p: 0.0147

r: 0.08	Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	136	191
Reject	243	336

n: 906

p: 0.015

r: -0.08	Analysis of knowledge: justified true belief
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	234
Reject	140	369

n: 799

p: 0.0232

r: 0.08	Normative concepts: value
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	115
Reject	178	239

n: 637

p: 0.0498

r: 0.08	Philosophical progress: a lot
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	169	190
Reject	288	342

n: 989

p: 0.0158

r: 0.08	Aim of philosophy: happiness
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	57	275
Reject	76	499

n: 907

p: 0.0218

r: 0.07	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	131	137
Reject	210	279

n: 757

p: 0.0423

r: 0.07	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	171	185
Reject	259	373

n: 988

p: 0.0225

r: -0.07	Philosophical knowledge: none
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	291
Reject	17	514

n: 836

p: 0.0372

r: -0.07	Immortality: yes
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	144	154
Reject	272	271

n: 841

p: 0.0386

r: 0.07	Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	117	173
Reject	149	360

n: 799

p: 0.0467

r: 0.07	Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	127	210
Reject	205	386

n: 928

p: 0.0348

r: 0.07	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	103	250
Reject	163	468

n: 984

p: 0.0322

r: 0.07	Philosophical progress: none
Other minds: flies	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	340
Reject	15	614

n: 988

p: 0.0324

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.12	Other demographics: YOB
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	183	163
Reject	274	342

n: 962

p: 0.0002

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Whitehead
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	5	282
Reject	0	501

n: 788

p: 0.0048

r: 0.1	AOS: Philosophy of Mind
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	99	271
Reject	123	538

n: 1031

p: 0.002

r: -0.09	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	29	341
Reject	70	591

n: 1031

p: 0.0059

r: 0.08	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	45	325
Reject	54	607

n: 1031

p: 0.0084

r: -0.08	AOS: Philosophy of Biology
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	10	360
Reject	35	626

n: 1031

p: 0.0153

r: 0.06	AOS: Metaphysics
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	106	264
Reject	153	508

n: 1031

p: 0.0413

r: -0.06	AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Other minds: flies	Yes	No
Accept	44	326
Reject	107	554

n: 1031

p: 0.0491