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: 0.34
True contradictions: actual
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 25 10
No 89 721
n: 845
p < 0.0001
r: -0.27
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 13 38
No 537 250
n: 838
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
External world: idealism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 24 59
No 90 1401
n: 1574
p < 0.0001
r: 0.19
Spacetime: relationism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 3
No 251 278
n: 558
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Philosophical progress: none
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 18 72
No 46 1444
n: 1580
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
External world: non-skeptical realism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 53 30
No 1294 194
n: 1571
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Truth: epistemic
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 42
No 132 1215
n: 1415
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Science: scientific realism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 44 39
No 1132 276
n: 1491
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 35 68
No 895 580
n: 1578
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 11 10
No 76 418
n: 515
p: 0.001
r: 0.14
Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 14 17
No 84 521
n: 636
p: 0.0003
r: 0.13
Morality: constructivism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 18 19
No 189 701
n: 927
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 21 82
No 648 827
n: 1578
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Units of selection: genes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 10 22
No 276 263
n: 571
p: 0.0022
r: 0.12
Principle of sufficient reason: true
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 16
No 294 525
n: 861
p: 0.0003
r: -0.12
Theory of reference: causal
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 6 22
No 387 336
n: 751
p: 0.0007
r: -0.12
Ought implies can: yes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 19 29
No 638 309
n: 995
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 22 18
No 171 499
n: 710
p: 0.0013
r: 0.12
Metaontology: anti-realism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 8 11
No 74 512
n: 605
p: 0.0034
r: 0.12
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 15 12
No 189 607
n: 823
p: 0.0007
r: 0.12
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 31 13
No 383 470
n: 897
p: 0.0004
r: -0.12
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 11 75
No 355 878
n: 1319
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Justification: coherentism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 15 10
No 201 584
n: 810
p: 0.001
r: -0.12
Other minds: cats
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 38 10
No 902 70
n: 1020
p: 0.0002
r: 0.11
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 71 15
No 706 530
n: 1322
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 6 14
No 48 619
n: 687
p: 0.0042
r: -0.11
Logic: classical
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 29 39
No 701 380
n: 1149
p: 0.0002
r: -0.11
Mind: physicalism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 28 54
No 841 581
n: 1504
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Other minds: plants
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 11 37
No 68 904
n: 1020
p: 0.0006
r: -0.11
Truth: correspondence
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 23 45
No 790 561
n: 1419
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
A priori knowledge: yes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 64 39
No 1165 321
n: 1589
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
Causation: process/production
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 11 12
No 183 591
n: 797
p: 0.003
r: -0.1
Philosophical progress: a lot
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 20 70
No 693 798
n: 1581
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
Consciousness: panpsychism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 9 22
No 66 774
n: 871
p: 0.0023
r: -0.1
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 20 22
No 642 258
n: 942
p: 0.0017
r: -0.1
Values in science: can be either
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 6 38
No 282 573
n: 899
p: 0.0022
r: -0.1
Practical reason: Humean
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 8 33
No 253 490
n: 784
p: 0.0049
r: -0.1
Immortality: yes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 13 35
No 469 486
n: 1003
p: 0.0015
r: 0.1
Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 57 36
No 563 804
n: 1460
p < 0.0001
r: -0.1
Other minds: future AI systems
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 13 35
No 406 566
n: 1020
p: 0.0022
r: -0.09
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 41
No 727 509
n: 1303
p: 0.0007
r: 0.09
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 5 30
No 36 774
n: 845
p: 0.0091
r: 0.09
Vagueness: metaphysical
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 22 36
No 266 960
n: 1284
p: 0.0014
r: 0.09
Hume: skeptic
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 19
No 279 462
n: 786
p: 0.0149
r: 0.09
Extended mind: yes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 27 10
No 450 380
n: 867
p: 0.0108
r: 0.09
Time: A-theory
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 18 15
No 273 633
n: 939
p: 0.0086
r: 0.08
Experience machine: yes
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 18 58
No 195 1212
n: 1483
p: 0.0012
r: -0.08
Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 53 50
No 949 526
n: 1578
p: 0.0009
r: -0.08
Moral judgment: cognitivism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 44 33
No 1039 367
n: 1483
p: 0.0021
r: -0.08
Moral principles: moral generalism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 16 21
No 504 359
n: 900
p: 0.0206
r: -0.08
Time travel: metaphysically possible
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 10 25
No 377 445
n: 857
p: 0.0239
r: 0.07
God: theism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 29 63
No 291 1203
n: 1586
p: 0.003
r: -0.07
Wittgenstein: early
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 8 31
No 222 587
n: 848
p: 0.033
r: 0.07
Political philosophy: communitarianism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 42 49
No 363 826
n: 1280
p: 0.0094
r: 0.07
Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 49 56
No 477 914
n: 1496
p: 0.0058
r: -0.07
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 41 62
No 791 684
n: 1578
p: 0.0062
r: -0.07
Zombies: metaphysically possible
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 13 66
No 371 921
n: 1371
p: 0.0122
r: 0.07
External world: skepticism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 5 76
No 88 1403
n: 1572
p: 0.0075
r: 0.07
Analysis of knowledge: justified true belief
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 16 19
No 217 677
n: 929
p: 0.0409
r: -0.07
Analysis of knowledge: no analysis
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 6 29
No 294 598
n: 927
p: 0.0445
r: -0.07
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 8 83
No 181 1008
n: 1280
p: 0.0186
r: -0.07
Other minds: adult humans
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 46 2
No 963 9
n: 1020
p: 0.0358
r: -0.06
Vagueness: semantic
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 33
No 694 541
n: 1294
p: 0.0203
r: 0.06
Free will: libertarianism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 25 63
No 283 1200
n: 1571
p: 0.0142
r: 0.06
Moral motivation: internalism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 36 31
No 526 635
n: 1228
p: 0.0337
r: -0.06
Perceptual experience: representationalism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 16 33
No 486 563
n: 1098
p: 0.0482
r: 0.06
Gender: biological
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 42 60
No 410 892
n: 1404
p: 0.0259
r: -0.06
Free will: compatibilism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 51 37
No 959 527
n: 1574
p: 0.023
r: -0.06
Meaning of life: objective
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 27 60
No 502 735
n: 1324
p: 0.0408
r: -0.06
Personal identity: biological view
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 9 52
No 286 946
n: 1293
p: 0.0453
r: -0.05
Trolley problem: switch
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 44 21
No 1017 326
n: 1408
p: 0.0455
r: -0.05
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Tradition: Continental Accept Reject
Yes 26 67
No 486 880
n: 1459
p: 0.0419

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.59
AOS: Continental Philosophy
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 62 50
No 28 1541
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.35
Philosopher: Heidegger
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 22 79
No 11 1133
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.29
Philosopher: Foucault
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 16 85
No 10 1134
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.27
Philosopher: Husserl
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 17 84
No 14 1130
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.26
Philosopher: Merleau-Ponty
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 15 86
No 12 1132
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 27 85
No 59 1510
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Philosopher: Arendt
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 10 91
No 8 1136
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 31 81
No 99 1470
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Philosopher: Hegel
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 13 88
No 25 1119
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Philosopher: Derrida
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 5 96
No 3 1141
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Philosopher: Marx
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 15 86
No 37 1107
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Philosopher: Beauvoir
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 9 92
No 17 1127
n: 1245
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
AOS: Epistemology
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 5 107
No 389 1180
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
AOS: Metaphysics
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 5 107
No 356 1213
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
AOS: Normative Ethics
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 5 107
No 344 1225
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.1
Philosopher: Nietzsche
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 9 92
No 28 1116
n: 1245
p: 0.0002
r: -0.1
AOS: Philosophy of Mind
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 6 106
No 340 1229
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: -0.09
Philosopher: Aristotle
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 6 95
No 219 925
n: 1245
p: 0.0009
r: -0.09
Gender: male
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 71 39
No 1240 314
n: 1664
p: 0.0002
r: 0.09
Region of PhD: Canada
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 7 53
No 40 1086
n: 1186
p: 0.0017
r: 0.09
Gender: female
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 38 72
No 306 1248
n: 1664
p: 0.0002
r: 0.09
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 32 80
No 245 1324
n: 1681
p: 0.0004
r: 0.08
AOS: Feminist Philosophy
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 13 99
No 68 1501
n: 1681
p: 0.0005
r: 0.08
Region of PhD: Europe
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 12 48
No 103 1023
n: 1186
p: 0.0056
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Kierkegaard
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 5 96
No 15 1129
n: 1245
p: 0.0053
r: -0.06
Other demographics: YOB
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 39 63
No 708 755
n: 1565
p: 0.0136
r: 0.06
AOS: Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 8 104
No 47 1522
n: 1681
p: 0.0171
r: -0.06
Region of PhD: United States
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 34 26
No 776 350
n: 1186
p: 0.047
r: -0.05
AOS: Applied Ethics
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 7 105
No 211 1358
n: 1681
p: 0.0285
r: -0.05
Region of affiliation: United Kingdom
Tradition: Continental Yes No
Yes 6 106
No 185 1399
n: 1696
p: 0.0408