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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: 0.37	Consciousness: panpsychism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	34
Reject	39	655

n: 748

p < 0.0001

r: 0.29	Extended mind: yes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	14
Reject	355	332

n: 747

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	True contradictions: impossible
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	27
Reject	540	150

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: 0.25	True contradictions: actual
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	36
Reject	82	608

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Truth: epistemic
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	38
Reject	68	757

n: 880

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Politics: capitalism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	47
Reject	261	445

n: 761

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Chinese room: understands
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	33
Reject	131	588

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	26
Reject	139	413

n: 598

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	39
Reject	298	350

n: 699

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	24
Reject	64	339

n: 438

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	19
Reject	296	397

n: 757

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Arguments for theism: ontological
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	37
Reject	69	574

n: 690

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Possible worlds: concrete
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	48
Reject	39	717

n: 811

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Science: scientific realism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	20
Reject	713	169

n: 938

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	49
Reject	29	661

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	External world: idealism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	59
Reject	57	861

n: 983

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Truth: correspondence
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	37
Reject	517	310

n: 882

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Metaontology: anti-realism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	33
Reject	59	425

n: 527

p: 0.0008

r: -0.14	Values in science: necessarily value-free
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	57
Reject	135	558

n: 757

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Logic: classical
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	26
Reject	459	230

n: 740

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	External world: non-skeptical realism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	15
Reject	797	119

n: 981

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	28
Reject	345	499

n: 906

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	External world: skepticism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	58
Reject	57	861

n: 983

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	31
Reject	153	513

n: 716

p: 0.0004

r: 0.13	Political philosophy: communitarianism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	34
Reject	228	513

n: 796

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Trolley problem: switch
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	25
Reject	640	185

n: 884

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Causation: nonexistent
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	43
Reject	24	605

n: 677

p: 0.0009

r: 0.13	Quantum mechanics: many-worlds
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	23
Reject	75	316

n: 427

p: 0.0094

r: -0.12	Semantic content: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	28
Reject	316	236

n: 598

p: 0.0031

r: -0.12	Concepts: nativism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	37
Reject	203	369

n: 617

p: 0.0027

r: -0.12	Consciousness: dualism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	46
Reject	185	508

n: 747

p: 0.001

r: 0.12	Gender: social
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	54	9
Reject	567	256

n: 886

p: 0.0004

r: 0.12	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	30
Reject	91	499

n: 635

p: 0.0028

r: -0.12	Units of selection: genes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	29
Reject	237	219

n: 497

p: 0.0091

r: 0.12	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	30
Reject	72	417

n: 535

p: 0.0068

r: -0.12	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	44
Reject	502	413

n: 988

p: 0.0002

r: 0.12	Philosophical progress: none
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	62
Reject	28	892

n: 988

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	29
Reject	223	263

n: 529

p: 0.0086

r: -0.11	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	39
Reject	475	436

n: 982

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	24
Reject	437	210

n: 706

p: 0.0027

r: 0.11	Kant: one world
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	14
Reject	233	253

n: 529

p: 0.0097

r: 0.11	Vagueness: metaphysical
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	40
Reject	158	623

n: 843

p: 0.0011

r: -0.11	Gender categories: preserve
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	46
Reject	149	533

n: 737

p: 0.0029

r: -0.11	Capital punishment: permissible
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	53
Reject	163	642

n: 865

p: 0.0013

r: -0.11	Possible worlds: abstract
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	27
Reject	451	305

n: 811

p: 0.0019

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

n: 841

p: 0.0016

r: 0.1	Propositions: acts
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	42
Reject	45	505

n: 599

p: 0.011

r: 0.1	Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	41
Reject	50	606

n: 708

p: 0.0058

r: 0.1	Laws of nature: Humean
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	36
Reject	242	581

n: 887

p: 0.0034

r: 0.1	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	34
Reject	391	524

n: 988

p: 0.0022

r: -0.1	Moral principles: moral generalism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	28
Reject	413	292

n: 755

p: 0.0078

r: 0.1	Gender categories: eliminate
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	43
Reject	113	570

n: 738

p: 0.0094

r: 0.1	Morality: constructivism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	36
Reject	159	587

n: 799

p: 0.0071

r: 0.09	Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	31	33
Reject	301	563

n: 928

p: 0.0041

r: -0.09	Ought implies can: yes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	26
Reject	531	251

n: 840

p: 0.0068

r: 0.09	Experience machine: yes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	57
Reject	109	747

n: 927

p: 0.0047

r: -0.09	Values in science: can be either
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	53
Reject	235	458

n: 757

p: 0.0121

r: -0.09	Properties: transcendent universals
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	36
Reject	124	406

n: 573

p: 0.0292

r: -0.09	Causation: primitive
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	41
Reject	150	480

n: 678

p: 0.0179

r: 0.09	Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	51
Reject	178	733

n: 982

p: 0.0044

r: 0.09	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	24
Reject	170	335

n: 547

p: 0.035

r: -0.09	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	28
Reject	494	242

n: 792

p: 0.0114

r: -0.09	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	40
Reject	194	446

n: 688

p: 0.0204

r: -0.09	Race: biological
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	56
Reject	186	646

n: 900

p: 0.0092

r: -0.09	Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	41
Reject	74	412

n: 532

p: 0.0478

r: 0.09	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	53
Reject	248	665

n: 984

p: 0.0074

r: -0.08	Theory of reference: causal
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	33
Reject	329	275

n: 652

p: 0.0302

r: 0.08	Philosophical knowledge: none
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	52
Reject	23	753

n: 836

p: 0.0142

r: 0.08	Personal identity: further-fact view
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	43
Reject	142	604

n: 802

p: 0.0163

r: -0.08	Gender: biological
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	47
Reject	283	533

n: 877

p: 0.0123

r: -0.08	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	38
Reject	113	477

n: 635

p: 0.0343

r: 0.08	Belief or credence: credence
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	24
Reject	187	363

n: 589

p: 0.046

r: -0.08	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	47
Reject	242	527

n: 830

p: 0.0187

r: -0.08	Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	42
Reject	434	451

n: 951

p: 0.0122

r: 0.08	Justification: coherentism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	30
Reject	161	481

n: 690

p: 0.0349

r: 0.08	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	36
Reject	254	441

n: 752

p: 0.0288

r: 0.08	Aim of philosophy: happiness
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	48
Reject	117	726

n: 907

p: 0.0174

r: 0.08	Truth: deflationary
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	33
Reject	219	607

n: 881

p: 0.0242

r: -0.08	Vagueness: semantic
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	36
Reject	453	333

n: 848

p: 0.0287

r: 0.07	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	20
Reject	431	341

n: 833

p: 0.0335

r: 0.07	Zombies: inconceivable
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	44
Reject	149	666

n: 876

p: 0.0299

r: 0.07	Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	44
Reject	222	636

n: 923

p: 0.0264

r: 0.07	Meaning of life: subjective
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	31
Reject	294	482

n: 833

p: 0.0401

r: -0.07	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	26
Reject	608	293

n: 970

p: 0.032

r: 0.07	Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	47
Reject	319	596

n: 988

p: 0.0318

r: 0.07	Abortion: permissible
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	11
Reject	671	132

n: 869

p: 0.0457

r: 0.07	Race: social
Other minds: plants	Accept	Reject
Accept	52	16
Reject	569	263

n: 900

p: 0.0452

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.2	Tradition: Analytic
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	51	28
Reject	832	109

n: 1020

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Tradition: Other tradition
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	17	62
Reject	72	869

n: 1020

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Gender: male
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	52	22
Reject	776	174

n: 1024

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Philosopher: Spinoza
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	5	58
Reject	14	711

n: 788

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	AOS: Normative Ethics
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	6	72
Reject	220	733

n: 1031

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Gender: female
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	21	53
Reject	173	777

n: 1024

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	AOS: Asian Philosophy
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	7	71
Reject	14	939

n: 1031

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Other demographics: YOB
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	45	24
Reject	412	481

n: 962

p: 0.0003

r: 0.11	Tradition: Continental
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	11	68
Reject	37	904

n: 1020

p: 0.0006

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Marx
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	6	57
Reject	23	702

n: 788

p: 0.0102

r: 0.09	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	8	70
Reject	31	922

n: 1031

p: 0.0041

r: -0.08	AOS: Meta-Ethics
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	6	72
Reject	137	816

n: 1031

p: 0.0159

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Carnap
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	6	57
Reject	43	682

n: 788

p: 0.0432

r: 0.07	AOS: Aesthetics
Other minds: plants	Yes	No
Accept	8	70
Reject	54	899

n: 1031

p: 0.0362