Survey Results

Correlations

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: 0.17
Aesthetic experience: perception
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 94 168
No 36 117
n: 415
p: 0.0006
r: -0.16
Properties: classes
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 28 308
No 34 130
n: 500
p: 0.0003
r: -0.15
Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 98 164
No 82 69
n: 413
p: 0.0019
r: 0.15
Concepts: nativism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 137 215
No 44 136
n: 532
p: 0.0007
r: 0.14
Perceptual experience: qualia theory
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 105 429
No 35 224
n: 793
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Properties: transcendent universals
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 89 249
No 25 138
n: 501
p: 0.0014
r: -0.14
Interlevel metaphysics: identity
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 34 280
No 34 121
n: 469
p: 0.002
r: 0.14
Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 99 133
No 32 63
n: 327
p: 0.0103
r: 0.14
Race: social
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 549 153
No 208 103
n: 1013
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Meaning of life: objective
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 283 370
No 96 204
n: 953
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 89 311
No 14 151
n: 565
p: 0.0008
r: -0.14
Abortion: permissible
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 450 99
No 214 19
n: 782
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Knowledge: empiricism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 331 297
No 191 89
n: 908
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Consciousness: identity theory
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 50 407
No 44 159
n: 660
p: 0.0007
r: 0.13
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 535 221
No 202 147
n: 1105
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Capital punishment: permissible
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 105 421
No 32 219
n: 777
p: 0.0004
r: -0.12
Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 83 233
No 59 96
n: 471
p: 0.0087
r: 0.12
Immortality: yes
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 283 241
No 103 133
n: 760
p: 0.0009
r: 0.12
God: theism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 178 599
No 39 325
n: 1141
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 556 173
No 233 109
n: 1071
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Analysis of knowledge: other analysis
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 197 289
No 61 158
n: 705
p: 0.0021
r: 0.11
Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 15 340
No 6 165
n: 526
p: 0.0094
r: 0.11
Morality: non-naturalism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 160 330
No 42 156
n: 688
p: 0.0032
r: 0.11
Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 128 189
No 54 108
n: 479
p: 0.0164
r: -0.11
Justification: reliabilism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 148 283
No 85 106
n: 622
p: 0.0066
r: -0.11
Race: unreal
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 88 604
No 60 243
n: 995
p: 0.0006
r: 0.11
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 143 288
No 41 150
n: 622
p: 0.0071
r: -0.11
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 238 473
No 143 192
n: 1046
p: 0.0005
r: 0.11
Zombies: metaphysically possible
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 219 465
No 74 244
n: 1002
p: 0.0009
r: 0.1
Consciousness: dualism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 126 332
No 41 161
n: 660
p: 0.0076
r: 0.1
Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 338 145
No 128 90
n: 701
p: 0.0066
r: -0.1
Morality: constructivism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 103 388
No 60 140
n: 691
p: 0.0071
r: 0.1
Abstract objects: Platonism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 318 365
No 113 200
n: 996
p: 0.0013
r: 0.1
Foundations of mathematics: structuralism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 69 187
No 29 98
n: 383
p: 0.0481
r: 0.1
True contradictions: impossible
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 352 93
No 130 57
n: 632
p: 0.0128
r: 0.1
Personal identity: further-fact view
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 129 525
No 35 253
n: 942
p: 0.0024
r: -0.1
Extended mind: yes
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 223 224
No 134 83
n: 664
p: 0.0117
r: 0.1
Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 123 194
No 43 114
n: 474
p: 0.0363
r: -0.1
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 17 428
No 13 174
n: 632
p: 0.0165
r: -0.09
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 118 279
No 66 100
n: 563
p: 0.0257
r: -0.09
Meaning of life: nonexistent
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 118 527
No 78 220
n: 943
p: 0.0042
r: 0.09
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 232 225
No 84 123
n: 664
p: 0.0175
r: 0.09
Belief or credence: neither
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 87 288
No 27 129
n: 531
p: 0.0374
r: -0.09
Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 98 299
No 45 119
n: 561
p: 0.0328
r: 0.09
A priori knowledge: yes
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 629 152
No 263 95
n: 1139
p: 0.0028
r: 0.09
Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 32 326
No 11 161
n: 530
p: 0.0425
r: 0.09
Politics: capitalism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 180 291
No 66 156
n: 693
p: 0.0204
r: 0.09
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 83 344
No 22 171
n: 620
p: 0.0289
r: 0.09
Political philosophy: communitarianism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 198 427
No 72 211
n: 908
p: 0.0089
r: 0.08
Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 28 504
No 15 245
n: 792
p: 0.0169
r: -0.08
Zombies: inconceivable
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 105 578
No 75 243
n: 1001
p: 0.0078
r: 0.08
Causation: process/production
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 105 301
No 41 143
n: 590
p: 0.0421
r: -0.08
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 77 545
No 58 227
n: 907
p: 0.0118
r: 0.08
Well-being: objective list
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 270 167
No 99 95
n: 631
p: 0.0359
r: 0.08
Truth: correspondence
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 414 287
No 166 148
n: 1015
p: 0.0085
r: -0.08
Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 147 339
No 88 131
n: 705
p: 0.0309
r: 0.08
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 364 124
No 152 68
n: 708
p: 0.0403
r: -0.08
Laws of nature: Humean
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 206 482
No 117 196
n: 1001
p: 0.0156
r: 0.07
Possible worlds: abstract
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 299 189
No 127 110
n: 725
p: 0.0459
r: -0.07
Free will: compatibilism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 490 287
No 245 110
n: 1132
p: 0.0162
r: -0.07
Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 542 223
No 283 86
n: 1134
p: 0.0176
r: -0.07
Truth: deflationary
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 176 524
No 102 211
n: 1013
p: 0.0266
r: -0.07
Mind: physicalism
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 428 324
No 216 121
n: 1089
p: 0.0233
r: 0.06
Free will: no free will
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 104 673
No 29 326
n: 1132
p: 0.0293
r: -0.06
Meaning of life: subjective
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 253 400
No 138 164
n: 955
p: 0.0464
r: 0.06
Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Region of PhD: United States Accept Reject
Yes 272 450
No 104 234
n: 1060
p: 0.043

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.45
Region of nationality: Europe
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 37 729
No 141 208
n: 1115
p < 0.0001
r: -0.42
Region of affiliation: Europe
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 22 809
No 122 261
n: 1214
p < 0.0001
r: -0.33
Region of affiliation: United Kingdom
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 29 802
No 97 286
n: 1214
p < 0.0001
r: -0.29
Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 28 738
No 76 273
n: 1115
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Region of nationality: Oceania
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 19 747
No 47 302
n: 1115
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Region of affiliation: Oceania
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 21 810
No 46 337
n: 1214
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 44 767
No 51 330
n: 1192
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 81 730
No 16 365
n: 1192
p: 0.0006
r: 0.09
Philosopher: Reid
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 21 570
No 1 275
n: 867
p: 0.0053
r: -0.09
AOS: Metaphilosophy
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 27 784
No 29 352
n: 1192
p: 0.0011
r: -0.09
Region of nationality: Canada
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 48 718
No 41 308
n: 1115
p: 0.0017
r: -0.09
AOS: Continental Philosophy
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 28 783
No 29 352
n: 1192
p: 0.0017
r: 0.09
AOS: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 54 757
No 9 372
n: 1192
p: 0.002
r: 0.09
Philosopher: Aquinas
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 33 558
No 5 271
n: 867
p: 0.0115
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Carnap
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 32 559
No 27 249
n: 867
p: 0.0173
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Augustine
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 15 576
No 1 275
n: 867
p: 0.0266
r: 0.07
AOS: Normative Ethics
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 194 617
No 66 315
n: 1192
p: 0.0101
r: 0.07
Philosopher: James
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 27 564
No 5 271
n: 867
p: 0.0449
r: -0.06
Tradition: Continental
Region of PhD: United States Yes No
Yes 34 776
No 26 350
n: 1186
p: 0.047