Survey Results

Correlations

Category

Answer

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: 0.44	Gender: biological
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	185	85
Reject	241	813

n: 1324

p < 0.0001

r: 0.37	Politics: capitalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	58
Reject	170	470

n: 808

p < 0.0001

r: 0.35	Gender categories: preserve
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	79	80
Reject	105	552

n: 816

p < 0.0001

r: 0.32	Race categories: preserve
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	106
Reject	32	593

n: 770

p < 0.0001

r: -0.31	Gender: social
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	135	135
Reject	825	243

n: 1338

p < 0.0001

r: 0.3	Capital punishment: permissible
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	112
Reject	96	644

n: 921

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	120
Reject	321	303

n: 790

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Race categories: eliminate
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	112
Reject	316	309

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.25	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	76	162
Reject	105	801

n: 1144

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Values in science: necessarily value-free
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	51	115
Reject	84	540

n: 790

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Gender categories: revise
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	98
Reject	393	265

n: 819

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Abortion: permissible
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	137	52
Reject	649	91

n: 929

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Kant: one world
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	48	72
Reject	249	212

n: 581

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	88
Reject	147	426

n: 716

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Units of selection: genes
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	47
Reject	180	222

n: 524

p: 0.0003

r: -0.15	True contradictions: actual
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	145
Reject	83	491

n: 733

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	218	71
Reject	671	399

n: 1359

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Rational disagreement: non-permissivism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	51	123
Reject	112	518

n: 804

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	185	105
Reject	541	560

n: 1391

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Truth: epistemic
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	243
Reject	130	865

n: 1260

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	True contradictions: impossible
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	25
Reject	415	159

n: 733

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Gender categories: eliminate
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	144
Reject	126	532

n: 819

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Concepts: nativism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	82
Reject	146	354

n: 643

p: 0.0008

r: -0.13	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	59	231
Reject	343	759

n: 1392

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	99	135
Reject	494	420

n: 1148

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Epistemic justification: internalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	124	135
Reject	355	627

n: 1241

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	157	125
Reject	453	609

n: 1344

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Truth: correspondence
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	183	83
Reject	536	460

n: 1262

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Values in science: can be either
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	66	101
Reject	198	427

n: 792

p: 0.0009

r: 0.11	Philosophical knowledge: a little
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	82	99
Reject	225	466

n: 872

p: 0.0008

r: 0.11	Abstract objects: Platonism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	138	120
Reject	390	585

n: 1233

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	113	40
Reject	379	221

n: 753

p: 0.0026

r: 0.11	Logic: classical
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	169	66
Reject	467	313

n: 1015

p: 0.0005

r: -0.11	Extended mind: yes
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	86	79
Reject	351	252

n: 768

p: 0.0027

r: -0.11	Free will: compatibilism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	165	128
Reject	731	359

n: 1383

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Mental content: internalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	94	137
Reject	242	682

n: 1155

p: 0.0003

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	53	110
Reject	115	444

n: 722

p: 0.0043

r: 0.1	Free will: libertarianism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	78	214
Reject	206	883

n: 1381

p < 0.0001

r: -0.1	Morality: constructivism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	143
Reject	159	489

n: 820

p: 0.0035

r: 0.1	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	173	119
Reject	538	554

n: 1384

p: 0.0002

r: 0.1	Gender: psychological
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	85	183
Reject	234	824

n: 1326

p: 0.0003

r: 0.1	Foundations of mathematics: formalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	85
Reject	16	335

n: 450

p: 0.0365

r: 0.1	Personal identity: biological view
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	175
Reject	184	708

n: 1142

p: 0.0009

r: 0.1	Temporal ontology: presentism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	97
Reject	86	349

n: 565

p: 0.0217

r: -0.1	Practical reason: Kantian
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	121
Reject	128	435

n: 703

p: 0.0107

r: -0.09	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	108
Reject	145	357

n: 638

p: 0.0176

r: -0.09	Causation: nonexistent
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	5	152
Reject	28	521

n: 706

p: 0.0129

r: 0.09	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	77	72
Reject	245	339

n: 733

p: 0.0119

r: 0.09	Consciousness: dualism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	54	115
Reject	137	463

n: 769

p: 0.0102

r: 0.09	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	118
Reject	83	395

n: 629

p: 0.0203

r: -0.09	Philosophical knowledge: a lot
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	94	87
Reject	427	264

n: 872

p: 0.0069

r: 0.09	Other minds: newborn babies
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	16
Reject	609	93

n: 900

p: 0.0091

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

n: 900

p: 0.0092

r: 0.09	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	109	154
Reject	335	693

n: 1291

p: 0.0018

r: 0.09	Time: A-theory
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	116
Reject	204	442

n: 829

p: 0.0128

r: 0.09	Science: scientific realism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	240	45
Reject	800	238

n: 1323

p: 0.0019

r: -0.08	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	112	180
Reject	480	612

n: 1384

p: 0.0019

r: -0.08	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	37	127
Reject	151	414

n: 729

p: 0.028

r: -0.08	Theory of reference: deflationary
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	116
Reject	103	420

n: 656

p: 0.0392

r: 0.08	Immortality: yes
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	100	79
Reject	317	379

n: 875

p: 0.0172

r: -0.08	Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	150
Reject	54	502

n: 719

p: 0.0345

r: 0.08	Arguments for theism: design
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	122
Reject	106	451

n: 718

p: 0.0367

r: 0.08	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	79	160
Reject	233	696

n: 1168

p: 0.0083

r: 0.08	Race categories: revise
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	85
Reject	223	404

n: 773

p: 0.0349

r: 0.08	Aesthetic value: objective
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	162	115
Reject	476	524

n: 1277

p: 0.0071

r: -0.07	Arguments for theism: moral
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	147
Reject	62	492

n: 715

p: 0.0477

r: 0.07	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	70
Reject	232	335

n: 706

p: 0.0496

r: -0.07	Truth: deflationary
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	204
Reject	285	710

n: 1260

p: 0.0093

r: 0.07	Meaning of life: objective
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	114	141
Reject	354	577

n: 1186

p: 0.012

r: 0.07	Morality: error theory
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	153
Reject	25	618

n: 813

p: 0.0377

r: -0.07	Zombies: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	90	167
Reject	403	557

n: 1217

p: 0.012

r: -0.07	Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	52	123
Reject	211	426

n: 812

p: 0.0444

r: 0.07	Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	185	107
Reject	617	475

n: 1384

p: 0.014

r: -0.06	Personal identity: psychological view
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	126	124
Reject	486	406

n: 1142

p: 0.0293

r: -0.06	Mind: physicalism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	145	133
Reject	621	427

n: 1326

p: 0.0208

r: 0.06	A priori knowledge: yes
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	239	53
Reject	828	278

n: 1398

p: 0.0182

r: 0.06	God: theism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	73	214
Reject	209	886

n: 1382

p: 0.019

r: 0.06	External world: non-skeptical realism
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	253	33
Reject	929	160

n: 1375

p: 0.0218

r: -0.06	Laws of nature: Humean
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	90	176
Reject	332	649

n: 1247

p: 0.0395

r: -0.06	Aim of philosophy: understanding
Race: biological	Accept	Reject
Accept	161	120
Reject	672	392

n: 1345

p: 0.0382

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.14	Gender: male
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	262	37
Reject	869	280

n: 1448

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Gender: female
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	37	262
Reject	274	875

n: 1448

p < 0.0001

r: -0.11	Other demographics: YOB
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	90	190
Reject	546	532

n: 1358

p < 0.0001

r: -0.11	AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	6	295
Reject	70	1080

n: 1451

p < 0.0001

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Russell
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	24	204
Reject	45	810

n: 1083

p: 0.0006

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Locke
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	13	215
Reject	17	838

n: 1083

p: 0.0017

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Aquinas
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	17	211
Reject	28	827

n: 1083

p: 0.0033

r: 0.08	Region of PhD: Europe
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	23	160
Reject	65	764

n: 1012

p: 0.0092

r: 0.08	Region of nationality: Asia
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	15	272
Reject	19	1074

n: 1380

p: 0.0036

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Descartes
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	12	216
Reject	28	827

n: 1083

p: 0.0101

r: -0.07	AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	44	257
Reject	212	938

n: 1451

p: 0.0094

r: 0.07	AOS: General Philosophy of Science
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	44	257
Reject	115	1035

n: 1451

p: 0.0101

r: 0.06	AOS: Philosophy of Computing and Information
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	8	293
Reject	13	1137

n: 1451

p: 0.0152

r: -0.06	AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	11	290
Reject	70	1080

n: 1451

p: 0.0156

r: 0.06	Region of affiliation: Asia
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	15	289
Reject	29	1139

n: 1472

p: 0.0159

r: 0.06	Philosopher: Popper
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	7	221
Reject	8	847

n: 1083

p: 0.0455

r: 0.06	AOS: Decision Theory
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	11	290
Reject	22	1128

n: 1451

p: 0.0226

r: 0.06	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	33	268
Reject	90	1060

n: 1451

p: 0.0334

r: -0.05	AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Race: biological	Yes	No
Accept	18	283
Reject	105	1045

n: 1451

p: 0.0363