Survey Results

Correlations

Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: -0.2	Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	140
Reject	16	97

n: 278

p: 0.0009

r: -0.19	Quantum mechanics: collapse
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	142
Reject	18	94

n: 278

p: 0.0019

r: -0.18	Propositions: acts
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	207
Reject	21	131

n: 380

p: 0.0004

r: -0.16	Meaning of life: objective
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	175
Reject	107	99

n: 492

p: 0.0003

r: 0.14	Law: legal positivism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	101
Reject	47	95

n: 321

p: 0.0099

r: 0.14	External world: skepticism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	280
Reject	9	226

n: 548

p: 0.0009

r: -0.14	Properties: immanent universals
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	49	164
Reject	33	113

n: 359

p: 0.0085

r: -0.14	External world: non-skeptical realism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	248	63
Reject	210	25

n: 546

p: 0.0014

r: 0.14	Propositional attitudes: representational
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	101
Reject	66	99

n: 376

p: 0.0081

r: 0.13	Experience machine: yes
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	241
Reject	19	188

n: 507

p: 0.0029

r: 0.12	Laws of nature: Humean
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	114	189
Reject	56	163

n: 522

p: 0.0062

r: -0.12	True contradictions: actual
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	218
Reject	30	144

n: 434

p: 0.0149

r: -0.12	Propositional attitudes: dispositional
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	62	150
Reject	68	97

n: 377

p: 0.0239

r: 0.11	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	201
Reject	12	143

n: 380

p: 0.0342

r: -0.11	Consciousness: panpsychism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	224
Reject	21	153

n: 419

p: 0.0288

r: 0.11	Gender: psychological
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	96	198
Reject	49	170

n: 513

p: 0.0158

r: -0.11	Vagueness: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	76	199
Reject	68	128

n: 471

p: 0.0226

r: -0.1	Causation: process/production
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	58	183
Reject	48	120

n: 409

p: 0.0352

r: -0.1	Aesthetic value: objective
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	155	137
Reject	133	91

n: 516

p: 0.0231

r: 0.1	Personal identity: biological view
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	91	178
Reject	38	152

n: 459

p: 0.0337

r: 0.1	True contradictions: impossible
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	188	72
Reject	117	57

n: 434

p: 0.0389

r: 0.1	Hume: skeptic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	124	140
Reject	66	112

n: 442

p: 0.0381

r: -0.1	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	211
Reject	26	144

n: 407

p: 0.047

r: 0.1	Mental content: internalism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	100	178
Reject	53	147

n: 478

p: 0.0338

r: -0.09	Truth: epistemic
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	258
Reject	34	180

n: 502

p: 0.0338

r: -0.09	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	121	142
Reject	88	91

n: 442

p: 0.0467

r: -0.09	Personal identity: further-fact view
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	221
Reject	45	144

n: 457

p: 0.0439

r: 0.09	External world: idealism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	286
Reject	17	218

n: 548

p: 0.0348

r: -0.09	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	203	105
Reject	176	57

n: 541

p: 0.0402

r: 0.09	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Accept	Reject
Accept	166	125
Reject	107	104

n: 502

p: 0.0492

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Marx
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	7	265
Reject	16	181

n: 469

p: 0.0206

r: -0.11	Philosopher: Plato
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	18	254
Reject	22	175

n: 469

p: 0.0217

r: 0.1	AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Plato: knowledge only of forms	Yes	No
Accept	51	277
Reject	20	225

n: 573

p: 0.0128