Survey Results

Correlations

Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy

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: 0.28
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 326 132
Reject 419 390
n: 1267
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Knowledge: empiricism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 305 140
Reject 418 378
n: 1241
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Mind: physicalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 347 156
Reject 506 443
n: 1452
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
Other minds: future AI systems
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 158 187
Reject 249 394
n: 988
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Consciousness: dualism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 48 235
Reject 158 401
n: 842
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Chinese room: understands
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 70 220
Reject 102 491
n: 883
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Other minds: current AI systems
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 19 326
Reject 17 626
n: 988
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 14 215
Reject 55 417
n: 701
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Well-being: desire satisfaction
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 76 192
Reject 100 452
n: 820
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Morality: non-naturalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 65 239
Reject 186 406
n: 896
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Mind uploading: survival
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 103 182
Reject 162 409
n: 856
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Meaning of life: objective
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 148 303
Reject 364 470
n: 1285
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Abstract objects: Platonism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 150 306
Reject 437 459
n: 1352
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 220 273
Reject 287 628
n: 1408
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 96 108
Reject 140 277
n: 621
p: 0.0002
r: 0.15
Extended mind: yes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 182 113
Reject 280 261
n: 836
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 20 183
Reject 74 343
n: 620
p: 0.0003
r: -0.14
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 56 211
Reject 166 359
n: 792
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 71 165
Reject 170 271
n: 677
p: 0.0002
r: 0.14
Belief or credence: credence
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 86 140
Reject 143 313
n: 682
p: 0.0002
r: 0.14
Material composition: universalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 52 83
Reject 99 224
n: 458
p: 0.0024
r: -0.14
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 97 341
Reject 258 587
n: 1283
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 323 162
Reject 715 229
n: 1429
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 245 78
Reject 399 196
n: 918
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Practical reason: Humean
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 106 160
Reject 156 349
n: 771
p: 0.0002
r: 0.13
Semantic content: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 134 95
Reject 259 213
n: 701
p: 0.0004
r: 0.13
Consciousness: functionalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 127 155
Reject 196 366
n: 844
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Free will: libertarianism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 82 447
Reject 223 762
n: 1514
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Gender: social
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 359 120
Reject 614 279
n: 1372
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
True contradictions: actual
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 46 224
Reject 62 483
n: 815
p: 0.0002
r: 0.13
Gender categories: revise
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 174 122
Reject 303 256
n: 855
p: 0.0002
r: -0.13
Gender categories: preserve
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 49 247
Reject 142 414
n: 852
p: 0.0002
r: -0.13
Aesthetic value: objective
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 218 273
Reject 475 417
n: 1383
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Law: legal positivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 89 108
Reject 139 217
n: 553
p: 0.0028
r: 0.13
Justification: coherentism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 88 182
Reject 126 398
n: 794
p: 0.0004
r: 0.12
Arguments for theism: pragmatic
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 61 207
Reject 78 446
n: 792
p: 0.0005
r: 0.12
Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 111 139
Reject 206 323
n: 779
p: 0.0006
r: 0.12
Meaning of life: subjective
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 215 238
Reject 315 519
n: 1287
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Laws of nature: Humean
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 180 276
Reject 283 626
n: 1365
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Free will: no free will
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 86 444
Reject 104 883
n: 1517
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Propositions: sets
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 21 192
Reject 46 419
n: 678
p: 0.0017
r: 0.12
Morality: error theory
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 25 277
Reject 26 568
n: 896
p: 0.0003
r: 0.12
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 79 194
Reject 125 408
n: 806
p: 0.0007
r: -0.12
Belief or credence: belief
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 60 166
Reject 165 291
n: 682
p: 0.0019
r: -0.12
Well-being: objective list
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 146 123
Reject 344 206
n: 819
p: 0.0007
r: -0.12
Properties: transcendent universals
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 29 176
Reject 117 329
n: 651
p: 0.0029
r: 0.11
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 282 158
Reject 483 363
n: 1286
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
True contradictions: impossible
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 183 87
Reject 428 117
n: 815
p: 0.0012
r: -0.11
A priori knowledge: yes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 377 149
Reject 804 203
n: 1533
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 320 187
Reject 658 309
n: 1474
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Experience machine: yes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 91 412
Reject 121 802
n: 1426
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Knowledge claims: relativism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 39 401
Reject 34 810
n: 1284
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 255 279
Reject 532 457
n: 1523
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Justification: reliabilism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 115 154
Reject 187 338
n: 794
p: 0.0027
r: 0.11
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 125 408
Reject 170 818
n: 1521
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 307 200
Reject 681 307
n: 1495
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
Possible worlds: concrete
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 19 295
Reject 29 602
n: 945
p: 0.0015
r: 0.1
Morality: expressivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 42 263
Reject 64 530
n: 899
p: 0.0021
r: 0.1
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 14 256
Reject 30 515
n: 815
p: 0.0036
r: -0.1
Material composition: restrictivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 50 85
Reject 138 185
n: 458
p: 0.0304
r: 0.1
Metaontology: deflationary realism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 63 134
Reject 127 276
n: 600
p: 0.0143
r: 0.1
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 97 133
Reject 146 332
n: 708
p: 0.0087
r: 0.1
Morality: constructivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 72 233
Reject 132 464
n: 901
p: 0.0031
r: -0.1
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 79 119
Reject 184 220
n: 602
p: 0.0158
r: 0.1
Time travel: metaphysically possible
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 132 146
Reject 250 307
n: 835
p: 0.0048
r: 0.1
Race: social
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 360 125
Reject 609 290
n: 1384
p: 0.0003
r: 0.1
Interlevel metaphysics: realization
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 52 140
Reject 94 316
n: 602
p: 0.0183
r: -0.09
Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 174 127
Reject 409 190
n: 900
p: 0.0044
r: -0.09
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 48 303
Reject 142 570
n: 1063
p: 0.0029
r: 0.09
Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 38 231
Reject 56 468
n: 793
p: 0.0104
r: 0.09
Morality: naturalist realism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 120 187
Reject 190 405
n: 902
p: 0.007
r: 0.09
Units of selection: genes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 119 93
Reject 172 189
n: 573
p: 0.032
r: -0.09
Normative ethics: deontology
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 157 336
Reject 354 562
n: 1409
p: 0.0009
r: 0.09
Consciousness: eliminativism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 21 260
Reject 23 538
n: 842
p: 0.0108
r: 0.09
Properties: classes
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 31 173
Reject 55 391
n: 650
p: 0.0251
r: 0.09
Aesthetic experience: pleasure
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 36 153
Reject 57 324
n: 570
p: 0.0365
r: -0.08
Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 74 114
Reject 171 208
n: 567
p: 0.0449
r: 0.08
Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 44 223
Reject 72 478
n: 817
p: 0.0161
r: 0.08
Gender: psychological
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 139 338
Reject 191 695
n: 1363
p: 0.0019
r: 0.08
Propositions: nonexistent
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 42 170
Reject 77 388
n: 677
p: 0.0291
r: 0.08
Abortion: permissible
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 306 42
Reject 560 116
n: 1024
p: 0.0076
r: 0.08
Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 59 134
Reject 115 294
n: 602
p: 0.0422
r: 0.08
Truth: epistemic
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 68 392
Reject 91 821
n: 1372
p: 0.0022
r: 0.08
Newcomb's problem: one box
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 124 200
Reject 194 407
n: 925
p: 0.0132
r: -0.08
Philosophical progress: none
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 12 521
Reject 49 943
n: 1525
p: 0.0016
r: 0.08
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 232 207
Reject 395 417
n: 1251
p: 0.0056
r: -0.08
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 31 199
Reject 98 381
n: 709
p: 0.0386
r: -0.08
Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 52 255
Reject 130 456
n: 893
p: 0.0209
r: 0.08
Perceptual experience: representationalism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 180 173
Reject 312 404
n: 1069
p: 0.0125
r: 0.07
Teletransporter: survival
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 195 227
Reject 333 498
n: 1253
p: 0.0095
r: 0.07
Trolley problem: switch
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 383 101
Reject 646 234
n: 1364
p: 0.0072
r: -0.07
Practical reason: Aristotelian
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 107 160
Reject 213 291
n: 771
p: 0.0444
r: 0.07
External world: skepticism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 40 482
Reject 48 940
n: 1510
p: 0.005
r: 0.07
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 147 353
Reject 228 716
n: 1444
p: 0.0077
r: 0.07
Other minds: plants
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 26 319
Reject 47 596
n: 988
p: 0.0318
r: -0.07
Political philosophy: communitarianism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 131 303
Reject 273 541
n: 1248
p: 0.0159
r: -0.07
Personal identity: further-fact view
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 69 359
Reject 153 657
n: 1238
p: 0.0175
r: 0.07
Vagueness: epistemic
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 114 308
Reject 211 618
n: 1251
p: 0.0179
r: 0.07
Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 23 328
Reject 38 670
n: 1059
p: 0.0298
r: -0.07
God: theism
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Accept Reject
Accept 89 431
Reject 217 786
n: 1523
p: 0.0099

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.17
Philosopher: Hume
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 102 302
Reject 110 678
n: 1192
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 83 470
Reject 71 975
n: 1599
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Dewey
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 27 377
Reject 17 771
n: 1192
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
AOS: Metaphysics
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 85 468
Reject 258 788
n: 1599
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Philosopher: Anscombe
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 6 398
Reject 29 759
n: 1192
p < 0.0001
r: 0.09
Philosopher: James
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 21 383
Reject 20 768
n: 1192
p: 0.001
r: -0.09
Philosopher: Husserl
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 5 399
Reject 27 761
n: 1192
p: 0.0017
r: -0.09
Philosopher: Plato
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 17 387
Reject 51 737
n: 1192
p: 0.0023
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Aquinas
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 8 396
Reject 39 749
n: 1192
p: 0.0035
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 33 371
Reject 80 708
n: 1192
p: 0.0053
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Kant
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 42 362
Reject 133 655
n: 1192
p: 0.0055
r: 0.07
Other demographics: YOB
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 254 270
Reject 450 522
n: 1496
p: 0.0044
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Quine
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 43 361
Reject 60 728
n: 1192
p: 0.0117
r: 0.07
Region of affiliation: Oceania
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 41 517
Reject 42 1023
n: 1623
p: 0.0039
r: 0.07
Region of nationality: Latin America
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 14 515
Reject 12 970
n: 1511
p: 0.0069
r: -0.07
AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 41 512
Reject 110 936
n: 1599
p: 0.0062
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Leibniz
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 8 396
Reject 29 759
n: 1192
p: 0.0197
r: -0.07
AOS: Philosophy of Law
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 11 542
Reject 35 1011
n: 1599
p: 0.0076
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Frege
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 21 383
Reject 71 717
n: 1192
p: 0.0227
r: -0.07
Region of affiliation: Canada
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 27 531
Reject 79 986
n: 1623
p: 0.0087
r: 0.06
Region of PhD: Oceania
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 25 375
Reject 28 706
n: 1134
p: 0.0319
r: 0.06
AOS: Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 30 523
Reject 26 1020
n: 1599
p: 0.0135
r: 0.06
AOS: Applied Ethics
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 84 469
Reject 120 926
n: 1599
p: 0.0157
r: -0.06
Philosopher: Marx
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 13 391
Reject 35 753
n: 1192
p: 0.0401
r: -0.06
Philosopher: Heidegger
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 8 396
Reject 24 764
n: 1192
p: 0.0458
r: -0.05
AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 13 540
Reject 31 1015
n: 1599
p: 0.0343
r: -0.05
Region of affiliation: United Kingdom
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 45 513
Reject 133 932
n: 1623
p: 0.0378
r: 0.05
AOS: African/Africana Philosophy
Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy Yes No
Accept 6 547
Reject 3 1043
n: 1599
p: 0.0456