Survey Results

Correlations

Race categories: preserve

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: 0.4
Gender categories: preserve
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 43 18
Reject 106 519
n: 686
p < 0.0001
r: 0.32
Race: biological
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 39 32
Reject 106 593
n: 770
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Politics: capitalism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 28 24
Reject 184 393
n: 629
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 11 31
Reject 84 372
n: 498
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 15 32
Reject 69 459
n: 575
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Meaning of life: objective
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 35 25
Reject 217 393
n: 670
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Properties: transcendent universals
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 10 27
Reject 85 343
n: 465
p: 0.0002
r: 0.17
Concepts: nativism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 23 19
Reject 136 320
n: 498
p: 0.0002
r: -0.17
Gender: social
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 38 35
Reject 507 172
n: 752
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Capital punishment: permissible
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 19 37
Reject 109 535
n: 700
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Gender categories: revise
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 17 43
Reject 362 263
n: 685
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Propositions: simple entities
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 33
Reject 31 412
n: 481
p: 0.001
r: -0.15
Abortion: permissible
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 41 17
Reject 548 98
n: 704
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Consciousness: dualism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 15 31
Reject 129 417
n: 592
p: 0.0007
r: -0.14
Experience machine: yes
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 6 66
Reject 112 568
n: 752
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Personal identity: psychological view
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 24 40
Reject 312 281
n: 657
p: 0.0004
r: 0.14
Gender: biological
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 36 36
Reject 204 467
n: 743
p: 0.0002
r: 0.14
Aesthetic value: objective
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 40 21
Reject 317 350
n: 728
p: 0.0002
r: -0.14
Morality: constructivism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 50
Reject 147 438
n: 640
p: 0.0005
r: 0.13
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 16 28
Reject 143 355
n: 542
p: 0.0016
r: 0.13
Logic: classical
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 38 10
Reject 346 204
n: 598
p: 0.0011
r: 0.13
True contradictions: impossible
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 41 8
Reject 389 141
n: 579
p: 0.0014
r: -0.13
True contradictions: actual
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 44
Reject 74 456
n: 579
p: 0.0015
r: 0.13
Morality: non-naturalism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 19 36
Reject 151 432
n: 638
p: 0.001
r: 0.13
Sleeping beauty: one-third
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 10
Reject 76 166
n: 257
p: 0.0426
r: -0.13
Meaning of life: subjective
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 13 47
Reject 254 356
n: 670
p: 0.0011
r: 0.12
Philosophical knowledge: a little
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 27 31
Reject 206 405
n: 669
p: 0.0012
r: 0.12
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 49 28
Reject 364 363
n: 804
p: 0.0005
r: 0.12
Personal identity: further-fact view
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 19 45
Reject 98 492
n: 654
p: 0.002
r: 0.12
Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 7 19
Reject 43 297
n: 366
p: 0.0221
r: -0.12
Extended mind: yes
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 24 29
Reject 311 233
n: 597
p: 0.0034
r: -0.12
Race: unreal
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 62
Reject 138 551
n: 756
p: 0.0012
r: -0.12
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 33 29
Reject 364 254
n: 680
p: 0.0023
r: 0.11
Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 17 18
Reject 171 233
n: 439
p: 0.0178
r: 0.11
Well-being: objective list
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 35 12
Reject 308 231
n: 586
p: 0.0068
r: 0.11
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 13 43
Reject 95 514
n: 665
p: 0.0044
r: 0.11
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 37 14
Reject 350 197
n: 598
p: 0.0074
r: 0.11
Values in science: necessarily value-free
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 13 40
Reject 104 475
n: 632
p: 0.006
r: -0.11
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 26 31
Reject 315 297
n: 669
p: 0.0052
r: 0.11
Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 5 36
Reject 35 409
n: 485
p: 0.0199
r: 0.1
Arguments for theism: design
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 12 36
Reject 105 413
n: 566
p: 0.0129
r: 0.1
Causation: primitive
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 12 34
Reject 110 396
n: 552
p: 0.0174
r: -0.1
Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 28 30
Reject 374 237
n: 669
p: 0.0099
r: -0.1
Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 14 62
Reject 207 510
n: 793
p: 0.0052
r: -0.1
Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 38 39
Reject 496 231
n: 804
p: 0.0049
r: 0.1
Normative concepts: ought
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 10 37
Reject 70 403
n: 520
p: 0.024
r: -0.1
Laws of nature: Humean
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 16 53
Reject 223 430
n: 722
p: 0.0087
r: -0.1
Normative concepts: value
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 17 30
Reject 207 267
n: 521
p: 0.0268
r: 0.1
God: theism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 19 52
Reject 151 565
n: 787
p: 0.0072
r: -0.1
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 18 35
Reject 273 306
n: 632
p: 0.0162
r: 0.09
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 53 19
Reject 504 190
n: 766
p: 0.0094
r: 0.09
Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 13 44
Reject 113 455
n: 625
p: 0.021
r: 0.09
Immortality: yes
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 29 25
Reject 291 323
n: 668
p: 0.0188
r: -0.09
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 29 36
Reject 359 251
n: 675
p: 0.0231
r: -0.09
Consciousness: identity theory
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 6 40
Reject 92 454
n: 592
p: 0.0381
r: 0.08
Personal identity: biological view
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 17 47
Reject 153 440
n: 657
p: 0.0324
r: 0.08
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 26 39
Reject 177 431
n: 673
p: 0.0316
r: -0.08
Teletransporter: survival
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 20 40
Reject 252 369
n: 681
p: 0.0373
r: 0.08
Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 38 32
Reject 326 372
n: 768
p: 0.0292
r: 0.08
External world: non-skeptical realism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 67 5
Reject 614 108
n: 794
p: 0.0281
r: 0.08
Free will: libertarianism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 19 52
Reject 141 573
n: 785
p: 0.0306
r: -0.08
Race: social
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 39 32
Reject 512 189
n: 772
p: 0.0342
r: 0.07
Abstract objects: Platonism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 26 37
Reject 273 374
n: 710
p: 0.0493
r: -0.07
Mind: physicalism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 36 31
Reject 408 285
n: 760
p: 0.0441
r: 0.07
Science: scientific realism
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 60 9
Reject 537 152
n: 758
p: 0.049
r: 0.07
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Race categories: preserve Accept Reject
Accept 53 21
Reject 468 253
n: 795
p: 0.047

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.11
Tradition: Analytic
Race categories: preserve Yes No
Accept 67 7
Reject 642 106
n: 822
p: 0.001
r: 0.09
Other demographics: YOB
Race categories: preserve Yes No
Accept 34 35
Reject 334 384
n: 787
p: 0.012
r: -0.09
Tradition: Other tradition
Race categories: preserve Yes No
Accept 6 68
Reject 68 680
n: 822
p: 0.0124
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Descartes
Race categories: preserve Yes No
Accept 6 51
Reject 24 560
n: 641
p: 0.0354
r: -0.08
Region of nationality: Europe
Race categories: preserve Yes No
Accept 12 57
Reject 146 578
n: 793
p: 0.0229