Survey Results

Correlations

Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.46	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	27
Reject	31	272

n: 377

p < 0.0001

r: 0.35	Possible worlds: concrete
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	68
Reject	11	328

n: 430

p < 0.0001

r: 0.28	Mind uploading: survival
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	41
Reject	87	227

n: 397

p < 0.0001

r: 0.28	Other minds: future AI systems
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	25
Reject	134	205

n: 427

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Teletransporter: survival
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	51	41
Reject	114	213

n: 419

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Chinese room: understands
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	47
Reject	58	261

n: 408

p < 0.0001

r: 0.23	Propositions: sets
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	62
Reject	21	252

n: 352

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Laws of nature: Humean
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	52
Reject	98	270

n: 466

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Material composition: restrictivism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	44
Reject	93	114

n: 265

p: 0.0004

r: 0.2	Other minds: current AI systems
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	80
Reject	10	329

n: 427

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Temporal ontology: eternalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	47	26
Reject	119	162

n: 354

p: 0.0002

r: 0.2	Material composition: universalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	29
Reject	68	139

n: 265

p: 0.0013

r: 0.19	Material composition: nihilism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	53
Reject	18	189

n: 265

p: 0.0017

r: 0.19	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	54
Reject	30	219

n: 322

p: 0.0006

r: 0.19	Time travel: metaphysically possible
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	25
Reject	145	176

n: 412

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	59
Reject	101	203

n: 376

p: 0.0004

r: 0.18	Abortion: permissible
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	95	1
Reject	271	72

n: 439

p: 0.0002

r: 0.18	Belief or credence: credence
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	40	35
Reject	82	185

n: 342

p: 0.001

r: -0.17	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	36
Reject	277	84

n: 458

p: 0.0003

r: 0.17	Aesthetic experience: perception
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	28
Reject	65	137

n: 256

p: 0.0071

r: -0.17	Temporal ontology: presentism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	65
Reject	60	222

n: 355

p: 0.0016

r: 0.17	Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	40
Reject	115	196

n: 392

p: 0.001

r: 0.16	Practical reason: Humean
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	38
Reject	85	187

n: 342

p: 0.0023

r: 0.16	Race: social
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	24
Reject	223	121

n: 440

p: 0.0006

r: 0.15	Extended mind: yes
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	27
Reject	150	161

n: 401

p: 0.0019

r: -0.15	Well-being: objective list
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	32	48
Reject	169	103

n: 352

p: 0.0043

r: -0.15	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	61
Reject	87	205

n: 368

p: 0.0036

r: 0.15	Properties: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	59
Reject	26	240

n: 334

p: 0.0058

r: 0.15	Units of selection: genes
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	26
Reject	114	118

n: 296

p: 0.0096

r: -0.15	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	48
Reject	118	154

n: 342

p: 0.0062

r: -0.14	Aesthetic value: objective
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	62
Reject	182	170

n: 450

p: 0.0026

r: -0.14	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	71
Reject	111	224

n: 421

p: 0.0042

r: -0.14	Morality: non-naturalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	69
Reject	97	223

n: 402

p: 0.0058

r: 0.14	Moral principles: moral generalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	50	27
Reject	171	140

n: 388

p: 0.0073

r: 0.14	Morality: constructivism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	55
Reject	58	263

n: 403

p: 0.0066

r: 0.14	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	41
Reject	139	167

n: 390

p: 0.0076

r: 0.13	Mind: physicalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	29
Reject	200	164

n: 465

p: 0.004

r: 0.13	Perceptual experience: qualia theory
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	63
Reject	51	246

n: 383

p: 0.0096

r: 0.13	Meaning of life: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	31	55
Reject	61	262

n: 409

p: 0.0075

r: 0.13	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	26
Reject	176	160

n: 423

p: 0.0066

r: 0.13	Properties: classes
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	52
Reject	28	238

n: 334

p: 0.0168

r: 0.13	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	53
Reject	114	223

n: 433

p: 0.0083

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

n: 427

p: 0.0094

r: -0.12	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	38
Reject	265	109

n: 473

p: 0.0078

r: 0.12	True contradictions: actual
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	66
Reject	30	289

n: 403

p: 0.0148

r: 0.12	Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	72
Reject	10	261

n: 348

p: 0.024

r: 0.12	Causation: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	71
Reject	16	293

n: 390

p: 0.0185

r: -0.12	Meaning of life: objective
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	67
Reject	142	184

n: 413

p: 0.0176

r: 0.12	Morality: expressivism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	72
Reject	42	279

n: 403

p: 0.0192

r: -0.12	Belief or credence: belief
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	59
Reject	86	181

n: 342

p: 0.0317

r: -0.12	Gender: biological
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	64
Reject	126	208

n: 427

p: 0.0168

r: -0.12	Free will: libertarianism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	93
Reject	94	288

n: 486

p: 0.0109

r: 0.12	Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	67
Reject	21	280

n: 382

p: 0.0241

r: 0.11	Grounds of intentionality: inferential
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	57
Reject	27	221

n: 320

p: 0.0413

r: 0.11	Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	77
Reject	65	312

n: 481

p: 0.0126

r: 0.11	Experience machine: yes
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	70
Reject	41	318

n: 454

p: 0.0156

r: 0.11	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	63
Reject	36	234

n: 350

p: 0.0374

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	65
Reject	31	268

n: 380

p: 0.0321

r: 0.11	Human genetic engineering: permissible
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	15
Reject	239	90

n: 419

p: 0.0291

r: 0.11	External world: idealism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	93
Reject	24	351

n: 475

p: 0.0212

r: -0.1	Time: A-theory
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	66
Reject	96	195

n: 373

p: 0.0435

r: -0.1	Values in science: can be either
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	63
Reject	116	201

n: 403

p: 0.0384

r: 0.1	Consciousness: functionalism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	41	40
Reject	110	199

n: 390

p: 0.0429

r: 0.1	Consciousness: eliminativism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	71
Reject	17	292

n: 389

p: 0.044

r: 0.1	Footbridge: push
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	40	61
Reject	93	264

n: 458

p: 0.0296

r: 0.1	Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	59
Reject	70	252

n: 403

p: 0.0436

r: -0.1	Science: scientific realism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	20
Reject	310	61

n: 466

p: 0.0313

r: -0.1	Personal identity: further-fact view
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	69
Reject	69	244

n: 399

p: 0.048

r: 0.1	Free will: compatibilism
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	74	30
Reject	230	154

n: 488

p: 0.0358

r: -0.09	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	42
Reject	275	109

n: 487

p: 0.0386

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.18	Philosopher: Lewis
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Yes	No
Accept	24	66
Reject	32	283

n: 405

p: 0.0003

r: 0.11	Philosopher: Carnap
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Yes	No
Accept	13	77
Reject	20	295

n: 405

p: 0.0239

r: 0.09	AOS: Meta-Ethics
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Yes	No
Accept	17	90
Reject	37	357

n: 501

p: 0.0398

r: 0.09	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Quantum mechanics: many-worlds	Yes	No
Accept	8	99
Reject	12	382

n: 501

p: 0.0414