Most correlated quantifiable answers in the Survey. N = 931 (target faculty).

n < 10 omitted. Some redundant or trivial correlations are not shown.

See how are correlations calculated? for explanations.

Correlations between main answers and main answers

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Moral judgment:cognitivism	0.562
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Mind:non-physicalism	0.497
A priori knowledge:yes	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.467
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.411
God:atheism	Mind:physicalism	0.393
Science:scientific realism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.393
Free will:libertarianism	Mind:non-physicalism	0.386
Free will:libertarianism	God:theism	0.385
Knowledge:rationalism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.383
Personal identity:psychological view	Teletransporter:survival	0.375
Truth:correspondence	Science:scientific realism	0.362
Knowledge:rationalism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.36
God:atheism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.351
Free will:libertarianism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.343
Epistemic justification:internalism	Mental content:internalism	0.342
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.335
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.333
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.329
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.321
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Science:scientific realism	0.32
Knowledge:rationalism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.307
Laws of nature:Humean	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.303
Mind:non-physicalism	Knowledge:rationalism	0.302
Science:scientific anti-realism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.299
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Truth:correspondence	0.294
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.288
Truth:correspondence	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.287
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	not Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.286
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Trolley problem:switch	0.284
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.276
Free will:libertarianism	Time:A-theory	0.271
Knowledge:rationalism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.268
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.26
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.258
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Science:scientific realism	0.257
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.257
Science:scientific realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.255
A priori knowledge:yes	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.253
Aesthetic value:objective	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.253
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.252
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Mind:physicalism	0.252
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.249
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Mind:non-physicalism	0.248
A priori knowledge:no	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.248
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Mind:physicalism	0.247
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.245
Mind:physicalism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.244
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Time:B-theory	0.243
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.243
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Free will:libertarianism	0.24
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.238
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.237
Aesthetic value:subjective	Knowledge:empiricism	0.237
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not Personal identity:further-fact view	0.235
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.234
Time:A-theory	Mind:non-physicalism	0.23
Mind:non-physicalism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.23
Meta-ethics:moral realism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.229
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.229
Free will:libertarianism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.228
Aesthetic value:objective	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.228
Free will:no free will	External world:skepticism	0.227
A priori knowledge:no	Mind:physicalism	0.225
God:atheism	Time:B-theory	0.224
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.221
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Time:B-theory	0.22
Laws of nature:Humean	External world:skepticism	0.22
Mental content:internalism	Proper names:Fregean	0.219
External world:idealism	Truth:epistemic	0.218
God:atheism	Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.218
Mental content:externalism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.218
Knowledge:rationalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.216
Meta-ethics:moral realism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.215
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Time:A-theory	0.213
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Science:scientific realism	0.212
External world:non-skeptical realism	Mind:physicalism	0.209
Politics:communitarianism	Normative ethics:virtue ethics	0.207
Moral judgment:cognitivism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.207
Mind:non-physicalism	Trolley problem:don't switch	0.205
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.204
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	0.204
God:atheism	Trolley problem:switch	0.203
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.202
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Free will:libertarianism	0.199
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.199
Science:scientific realism	Trolley problem:switch	0.199
Mind:physicalism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.199
Truth:correspondence	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.198
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Mental content:externalism	0.198
Science:scientific realism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.196
Mind:physicalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.196
Perceptual experience:representationalism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.196
Trolley problem:don't switch	Time:A-theory	0.195
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.194
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Truth:correspondence	0.19
Epistemic justification:internalism	Moral motivation:internalism	0.19
God:atheism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.188
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Time:B-theory	0.186
God:atheism	Perceptual experience:representationalism	0.185
Laws of nature:non-Humean	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.185
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.184
God:atheism	Politics:egalitarianism	0.182
Truth:correspondence	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.181
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Trolley problem:switch	0.18
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	0.18
God:atheism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.179
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.175
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Free will:libertarianism	0.174
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.174
God:theism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.174
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.174
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.173
External world:non-skeptical realism	Mental content:externalism	0.172
Mind:physicalism	not Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.172
Free will:libertarianism	not Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.17
Truth:correspondence	Proper names:Millian	0.169
Free will:compatibilism	Perceptual experience:representationalism	0.168
Free will:libertarianism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.168
Personal identity:psychological view	Time:B-theory	0.167
Knowledge:rationalism	Science:scientific realism	0.166
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.166
Logic:non-classical	not Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.166
Science:scientific realism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.165
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.165
Science:scientific realism	Logic:classical	0.164
Time:B-theory	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.164
Time:A-theory	Aesthetic value:objective	0.164
Epistemic justification:externalism	Mind:physicalism	0.163
Free will:libertarianism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.162
Politics:egalitarianism	Time:B-theory	0.161
External world:non-skeptical realism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.161
God:theism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.16
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.159
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Perceptual experience:qualia theory	0.158
Free will:libertarianism	Politics:libertarianism	0.158
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Science:scientific realism	0.156
Science:scientific realism	Mental content:externalism	0.156
Science:scientific realism	Mind:physicalism	0.156
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.154
Knowledge:rationalism	God:theism	0.154
Aesthetic value:objective	Moral motivation:externalism	0.154
Free will:libertarianism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.154
Logic:non-classical	not Truth:correspondence	0.154
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Politics:egalitarianism	0.153
Science:scientific realism	Proper names:Millian	0.153
God:atheism	Science:scientific realism	0.152
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.15
Zombies:metaphysically possible	God:theism	0.149
Knowledge claims:relativism	External world:skepticism	0.149
Science:scientific realism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.149
External world:idealism	God:theism	0.149
External world:non-skeptical realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.148
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Mind:physicalism	0.147
Proper names:Fregean	Moral motivation:internalism	0.146
Abstract objects:Platonism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.146
Truth:correspondence	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.146
Knowledge:rationalism	Truth:correspondence	0.145
Teletransporter:death	Time:A-theory	0.145
External world:idealism	Time:A-theory	0.145
God:theism	Moral judgment:cognitvism	0.145
Personal identity:biological view	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.144
Knowledge:rationalism	Time:A-theory	0.144
Logic:non-classical	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.144
Truth:correspondence	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.143
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.143
Teletransporter:survival	Laws of nature:Humean	0.143
Free will:compatibilism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.142
Epistemic justification:externalism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.142
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Knowledge:rationalism	0.141
Politics:egalitarianism	Trolley problem:switch	0.141
Newcomb's problem:one box	Time:A-theory	0.141
Mental content:internalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.139
Newcomb's problem:one box	Mind:non-physicalism	0.139
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.139
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Time:A-theory	0.138
Personal identity:psychological view	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.138
Truth:deflationary	Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	0.136
Newcomb's problem:one box	Logic:non-classical	0.136
Free will:libertarianism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.135
Personal identity:psychological view	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.135
Epistemic justification:externalism	not Normative ethics:deontology	0.134
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	Mental content:externalism	0.133
Truth:correspondence	A priori knowledge:yes	0.133
Science:scientific realism	Time:B-theory	0.133
Mental content:externalism	Time:B-theory	0.133
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.132
Epistemic justification:externalism	Time:B-theory	0.132
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	Proper names:Millian	0.13
Personal identity:psychological view	Laws of nature:Humean	0.13
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Time:A-theory	0.129
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.129
God:atheism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.129
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	External world:skepticism	0.129
Time:A-theory	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.129
Politics:communitarianism	Newcomb's problem:one box	0.128
Personal identity:psychological view	Knowledge:empiricism	0.127
Mental content:internalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.127
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Personal identity:biological view	0.126
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	Laws of nature:Humean	0.126
Proper names:Millian	Mind:physicalism	0.126
Truth:deflationary	not Free will:libertarianism	0.126
Logic:non-classical	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.126
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.125
Abstract objects:Platonism	Normative ethics:deontology	0.125
External world:non-skeptical realism	Proper names:Millian	0.125
God:atheism	Newcomb's problem:two boxes	0.125
Free will:libertarianism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.124
Free will:libertarianism	Trolley problem:don't switch	0.124
Free will:compatibilism	Mental content:externalism	0.124
Free will:libertarianism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.123
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.121
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Personal identity:psychological view	0.121
A priori knowledge:yes	Normative ethics:deontology	0.121
A priori knowledge:no	External world:skepticism	0.121
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Knowledge:rationalism	0.121
Science:scientific realism	Newcomb's problem:two boxes	0.121
Time:A-theory	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.12
Epistemic justification:internalism	Truth:epistemic	0.119
External world:non-skeptical realism	Trolley problem:switch	0.119
Epistemic justification:externalism	Proper names:Millian	0.118
A priori knowledge:no	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.118
God:theism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.116
External world:idealism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.115
Truth:correspondence	Trolley problem:switch	0.114
Proper names:Millian	Time:B-theory	0.113
Politics:egalitarianism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.113
Mental content:externalism	Mind:physicalism	0.112
External world:idealism	Normative ethics:deontology	0.111
Zombies:metaphysically possible	A priori knowledge:yes	0.11
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Truth:correspondence	0.11
Politics:egalitarianism	Proper names:Fregean	0.11
Truth:epistemic	Mental content:internalism	0.11
Logic:non-classical	not External world:non-skeptical realism	0.109
Politics:egalitarianism	Mind:physicalism	0.108
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.107
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.107
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	Proper names:Millian	0.106
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.106
Science:scientific realism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.106
Science:scientific realism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.106
Laws of nature:non-Humean	Trolley problem:switch	0.105
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	A priori knowledge:yes	0.104
Personal identity:psychological view	not Politics:communitarianism	0.104
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Mental content:externalism	0.103
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Epistemic justification:internalism	0.103
Teletransporter:death	Moral motivation:externalism	0.103
Personal identity:psychological view	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.102
Science:scientific realism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.102
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Mental content:externalism	0.102
A priori knowledge:yes	Time:A-theory	0.102
Moral motivation:internalism	Newcomb's problem:one box	0.102
A priori knowledge:no	not Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.102
Knowledge:rationalism	Perceptual experience:qualia theory	0.101
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.101
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	Normative ethics:deontology	0.101
Aesthetic value:objective	not External world:skepticism	0.1

Correlations between main answers and orientation

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
God:theism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.351
Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Hume	0.31
Free will:libertarianism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.262
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	xian:Hume	0.242
A priori knowledge:yes	metasurvey:accuracy	0.24
External world:non-skeptical realism	tradition:analytic	0.238
not External world:non-skeptical realism	tradition:continental	0.238
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	xian:Hume	0.228
Trolley problem:switch	metasurvey:accuracy	0.223
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	xian:Quine	0.22
Mental content:internalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.218
External world:non-skeptical realism	not xian:Kant	0.218
Normative ethics:deontology	xian:Kant	0.215
Normative ethics:virtue ethics	xian:Aristotle	0.214
Knowledge:empiricism	xian:Hume	0.211
Abstract objects:nominalism	xian:Hume	0.211
Science:scientific realism	tradition:analytic	0.21
Science:scientific anti-realism	tradition:continental	0.21
A priori knowledge:yes	not xian:Quine	0.21
Science:scientific realism	not xian:Kant	0.206
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.205
Perceptual experience:representationalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.203
Time:A-theory	not xian:Lewis	0.202
Moral judgment:cognitivism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.196
Trolley problem:switch	tradition:analytic	0.195
Trolley problem:don't switch	tradition:continental	0.195
Time:A-theory	xian:Aristotle	0.195
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	xian:Quine	0.193
Mind:physicalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.193
not Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.191
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.19
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.19
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	metasurvey:accuracy	0.189
Truth:epistemic	tradition:continental	0.186
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Plato	0.184
Mind:physicalism	xian:Hume	0.182
Knowledge:empiricism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.181
Politics:communitarianism	not xian:Rawls	0.181
Time:B-theory	metasurvey:accuracy	0.178
Knowledge:rationalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.176
Normative ethics:virtue ethics	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.175
Zombies:metaphysically possible	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.175
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Plato	0.174
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Lewis	0.173
Knowledge claims:invariantism	tradition:analytic	0.17
Mind:non-physicalism	tradition:continental	0.169
Mind:physicalism	tradition:analytic	0.169
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.167
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Hume	0.166
not Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Epistemology	0.166
not External world:non-skeptical realism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.166
Mind:physicalism	xian:Lewis	0.164
not Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.164
God:atheism	tradition:analytic	0.163
Truth:correspondence	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.162
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.16
God:atheism	not xian:Plato	0.16
Meta-ethics:moral realism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.158
Normative ethics:deontology	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.158
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.157
Normative ethics:consequentialism	tradition:analytic	0.156
External world:idealism	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.153
Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.152
Normative ethics:deontology	xian:Rawls	0.152
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Metaphysics	0.152
Truth:correspondence	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.152
Knowledge claims:contextualism	xian:Marx	0.151
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Husserl	0.151
Truth:correspondence	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.151
Aesthetic value:subjective	xian:Hume	0.151
Moral motivation:externalism	not xian:Kant	0.151
Proper names:Fregean	xian:Frege	0.15
A priori knowledge:yes	AOS:Metaphysics	0.15
Politics:communitarianism	xian:Wittgenstein	0.15
Newcomb's problem:one box	xian:Wittgenstein	0.15
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.15
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.149
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.149
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.147
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.146
Time:A-theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.145
Time:B-theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.145
Meta-ethics:moral realism	tradition:analytic	0.143
Science:scientific realism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.143
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Aristotle	0.142
Meta-ethics:moral realism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.142
God:theism	xian:Aristotle	0.142
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Moore	0.142
Science:scientific realism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.142
Mind:physicalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.142
God:atheism	xian:Hume	0.141
Knowledge:rationalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.141
Science:scientific realism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.141
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.141
Science:scientific anti-realism	xian:Nietzsche	0.141
Mind:non-physicalism	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.141
Personal identity:further-fact view	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.14
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not xian:Kant	0.14
A priori knowledge:no	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.139
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	xian:Nietzsche	0.139
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.138
Mind:physicalism	xian:Quine	0.138
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	xian:Hume	0.138
not Politics:communitarianism	xian:Marx	0.138
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Aristotle	0.138
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	xian:Frege	0.137
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.136
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.136
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Plato	0.136
Mind:non-physicalism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.136
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.135
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Frege	0.135
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.135
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.134
Perceptual experience:representationalism	tradition:analytic	0.134
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	xian:Rawls	0.134
External world:skepticism	xian:Hume	0.134
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.134
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Mill	0.133
Knowledge:rationalism	xian:Frege	0.132
Politics:communitarianism	xian:Plato	0.132
Free will:no free will	xian:Spinoza	0.132
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.132
Proper names:Fregean	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.132
Truth:epistemic	xian:Kant	0.131
A priori knowledge:no	xian:Mill	0.131
Abstract objects:nominalism	xian:Nietzsche	0.131
not Truth:correspondence	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.131
Epistemic justification:internalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.131
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.13
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	AOS:Metaphysics	0.13
Free will:no free will	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.13
not Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Quine	0.13
Aesthetic value:objective	xian:Aristotle	0.129
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.129
Mind:physicalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.129
Mental content:externalism	tradition:analytic	0.128
Knowledge claims:contextualism	xian:Hegel	0.128
Logic:non-classical	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.128
Free will:no free will	xian:Quine	0.128
Mental content:internalism	tradition:continental	0.128
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.128
Truth:correspondence	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.127
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.127
Knowledge claims:relativism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.126
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.126
not Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.126
God:atheism	not xian:Kant	0.125
Epistemic justification:externalism	not xian:Kant	0.125
not Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.125
Meta-ethics:moral realism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.124
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.124
Abstract objects:Platonism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.124
Mind:physicalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.123
Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Lewis	0.123
Time:B-theory	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.123
Mental content:internalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.123
God:atheism	xian:Quine	0.122
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.122
Time:A-theory	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.122
Zombies:inconceivable	xian:Wittgenstein	0.122
Zombies:inconceivable	AOS:Aesthetics	0.122
Truth:epistemic	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.121
Truth:correspondence	xian:Locke	0.121
Epistemic justification:internalism	AOS:Epistemology	0.121
Science:scientific anti-realism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.121
Truth:epistemic	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.12
Logic:non-classical	xian:Hegel	0.12
Mental content:internalism	not xian:Davidson	0.12
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.12
Newcomb's problem:one box	not xian:Lewis	0.119
not External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Spinoza	0.119
Personal identity:psychological view	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.118
Free will:libertarianism	xian:Aristotle	0.118
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Moore	0.118
Zombies:inconceivable	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.118
Perceptual experience:representationalism	not AOS:Metaphilosophy	0.118
Zombies:metaphysically possible	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
Zombies:metaphysically possible	xian:Leibniz	0.117
Knowledge claims:invariantism	xian:Moore	0.117
God:theism	xian:Leibniz	0.117
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
Mental content:internalism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.117
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	0.117
External world:idealism	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.117
Knowledge:rationalism	not xian:Quine	0.117
Knowledge:rationalism	xian:Moore	0.116
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.116
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.115
External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Lewis	0.115
Logic:classical	tradition:analytic	0.114
Logic:non-classical	tradition:continental	0.114
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.114
Politics:communitarianism	not AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.114
Science:scientific realism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.113
Free will:compatibilism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.112
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.112
Zombies:inconceivable	xian:Spinoza	0.112
Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.111
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.111
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Carnap	0.111
Free will:libertarianism	not xian:Hume	0.111
not Normative ethics:virtue ethics	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.111
Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.11
A priori knowledge:yes	xian:Frege	0.11
Politics:libertarianism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.11
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Quine	0.11
Mental content:externalism	not xian:Leibniz	0.11
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Leibniz	0.11
not External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Heidegger	0.11
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Moore	0.11
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.109
Truth:deflationary	xian:Hume	0.109
God:atheism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.109
Aesthetic value:subjective	xian:Carnap	0.109
Science:scientific anti-realism	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.109
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.109
Truth:deflationary	AOS:Metaphilosophy	0.108
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.108
Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Moore	0.108
Free will:compatibilism	not xian:Leibniz	0.108
Mental content:externalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.108
Time:B-theory	not xian:Kant	0.108
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.108
Free will:compatibilism	xian:Davidson	0.107
Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Applied Ethics	0.107
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.107
Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Locke	0.107
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	xian:Davidson	0.107
Politics:egalitarianism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.107
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.107
Perceptual experience:representationalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.106
Knowledge claims:invariantism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.106
Trolley problem:don't switch	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.106
Knowledge:empiricism	xian:Carnap	0.105
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Hegel	0.105
Trolley problem:don't switch	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.105
Mental content:internalism	xian:Spinoza	0.105
Logic:classical	not xian:Kant	0.105
Mind:physicalism	not xian:Kant	0.105
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Probability	0.104
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.104
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Husserl	0.104
Free will:libertarianism	not xian:Carnap	0.104
not External world:skepticism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.104
Moral judgment:cognitivism	xian:Aristotle	0.103
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.103
Knowledge:empiricism	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.103
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.103
God:theism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.103
Logic:classical	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.103
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.102
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.102
Truth:epistemic	xian:Rawls	0.102
Politics:egalitarianism	xian:Kant	0.102
not Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.102
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.102
God:atheism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.101
Knowledge:rationalism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.101
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	tradition:analytic	0.101
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.101
Moral motivation:internalism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.101
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Kant	0.101
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.101
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.101
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	tradition:continental	0.101
not Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Aristotle	0.101
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Plato	0.1
Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.1
Mind:physicalism	xian:Carnap	0.1
not Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.1
God:atheism	not AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.1
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.1
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.1
External world:non-skeptical realism	not xian:Leibniz	0.1

Correlations between main answers and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.203
Normative ethics:consequentialism	phd_region:Australasia	0.183
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	phd_region:United Kingdom	0.178
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	nationality_region:United Kingdom	0.158
Laws of nature:Humean	year_of_phd	0.158
Time:B-theory	affil:region:Australasia	0.149
Proper names:Fregean	not affil:region:United States	0.149
Truth:epistemic	gender:female	0.147
Proper names:Fregean	affil:region:Europe	0.146
Mental content:externalism	year_of_phd	0.146
Laws of nature:Humean	year_of_birth	0.146
Mental content:externalism	year_of_birth	0.145
Time:A-theory	year_of_birth	-0.143
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	not affil:region:United States	0.142
Trolley problem:switch	gender:male	0.141
Trolley problem:don't switch	gender:female	0.141
Normative ethics:deontology	affil:region:United States	0.137
Teletransporter:survival	year_of_birth	0.136
A priori knowledge:yes	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.135
Normative ethics:consequentialism	affil:region:Australasia	0.132
Aesthetic value:subjective	nationality_region:Europe	0.132
Normative ethics:deontology	phd_region:United States	0.131
Proper names:Millian	phd_region:United States	0.13
Knowledge claims:relativism	year_of_phd	0.13
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not nationality_region:Europe	0.128
Proper names:Fregean	phd_region:Europe	0.126
Knowledge claims:invariantism	gender:male	0.126
Time:B-theory	nationality_region:Australasia	0.126
Proper names:Fregean	nationality_region:Europe	0.124
Time:A-theory	year_of_phd	-0.124
Proper names:Millian	nationality_region:United States	0.123
not Normative ethics:deontology	nationality_region:Australasia	0.122
Personal identity:further-fact view	nationality_region:United States	0.121
Knowledge claims:invariantism	year_of_birth	0.12
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	nationality_region:Europe	0.12
Knowledge:rationalism	gender:male	0.116
Normative ethics:deontology	nationality_region:United States	0.116
A priori knowledge:no	gender:female	0.116
Science:scientific anti-realism	gender:female	0.116
not Knowledge claims:contextualism	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.116
Politics:libertarianism	gender:male	0.115
Abstract objects:Platonism	gender:male	0.115
not Politics:libertarianism	gender:female	0.115
Abstract objects:nominalism	gender:female	0.115
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.115
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	phd_region:Canada	0.113
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	nationality_region:United States	0.113
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	gender:male	0.112
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	gender:female	0.112
Teletransporter:survival	year_of_phd	0.111
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	gender:female	0.111
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	gender:female	0.111
Perceptual experience:representationalism	affil:region:Australasia	0.109
Laws of nature:Humean	gender:female	0.109
Laws of nature:Humean	gender:female	0.109
Moral judgment:cognitvism	nationality_region:United States	0.109
Mind:physicalism	nationality_region:Australasia	0.108
External world:skepticism	year_of_phd	0.107
Moral judgment:cognitvism	phd_region:United States	0.107
A priori knowledge:no	year_of_phd	-0.107
Free will:libertarianism	not affil:region:Canada	0.106
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	nationality_region:Canada	0.105
Meta-ethics:moral realism	nationality_region:United States	0.104
Zombies:metaphysically possible	affil:region:United States	0.103
Teletransporter:survival	affil:region:Australasia	0.102
External world:idealism	gender:female	0.101
Mind:non-physicalism	nationality_region:United States	0.101
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	not phd_region:United States	0.101
God:atheism	not nationality_region:United States	0.1

Correlations between orientation and orientation

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
tradition:continental	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.457
tradition:analytic	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.457
xian:Heidegger	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.452
xian:Hegel	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.438
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.388
xian:Heidegger	tradition:continental	0.381
tradition:continental	xian:Hegel	0.374
tradition:analytic	not xian:Hegel	0.374
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Plato	0.357
tradition:continental	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.343
tradition:analytic	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.343
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Aristotle	0.33
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Rawls	0.325
AOS:Meta-Ethics	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.316
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.312
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.3
AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.274
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.265
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	xian:Kant	0.261
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Spinoza	0.254
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.252
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.243
xian:Frege	xian:Russell	0.22
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Mill	0.208
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Probability	0.203
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.201
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Mill	0.199
tradition:continental	xian:Kant	0.199
tradition:analytic	not xian:Kant	0.199
AOS:Applied Ethics	xian:Mill	0.198
xian:Russell	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.198
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Marx	0.195
AOS:Normative Ethics	AOS:Applied Ethics	0.195
AOS:Metaphysics	xian:Lewis	0.195
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.194
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.194
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Frege	0.192
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.191
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.19
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Russell	0.188
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.187
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Kant	0.185
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	AOS:Decision Theory	0.184
xian:Spinoza	xian:Leibniz	0.183
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.182
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	xian:Husserl	0.178
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Lewis	0.176
xian:Husserl	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.176
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.175
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	xian:Carnap	0.173
AOS:Philosophy of Law	xian:Mill	0.173
xian:Heidegger	xian:Husserl	0.172
AOS:Philosophy of Biology	xian:Hume	0.172
tradition:continental	xian:Husserl	0.171
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	metasurvey:accuracy	-0.171
tradition:analytic	not xian:Husserl	0.171
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Rawls	0.17
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Rawls	0.168
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.167
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	xian:Aristotle	0.165
xian:Marx	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.163
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Carnap	0.16
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.157
tradition:continental	xian:Nietzsche	0.155
tradition:analytic	not xian:Nietzsche	0.155
xian:Hegel	xian:Kant	0.153
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.153
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.153
xian:Rawls	xian:Mill	0.152
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Mill	0.152
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:Aesthetics	0.151
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.151
xian:Davidson	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.148
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Hegel	0.147
xian:Russell	xian:Carnap	0.142
AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	xian:Carnap	0.142
AOS:Applied Ethics	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.141
xian:Rawls	xian:Kant	0.141
xian:Wittgenstein	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.139
xian:Plato	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.138
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.138
AOS:Normative Ethics	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.137
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.136
xian:Descartes	AOS:Epistemology	0.135
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.134
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Epistemology	0.134
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.133
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	AOS:Decision Theory	0.133
xian:Descartes	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.133
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.133
xian:Hegel	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.131
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	xian:Hume	0.131
xian:Locke	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.13
xian:Russell	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.13
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Epistemology	0.13
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	0.13
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	xian:Wittgenstein	0.129
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.129
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.128
xian:Hume	xian:Mill	0.126
AOS:Philosophy of Language	not xian:Kant	0.126
xian:Marx	xian:Hegel	0.125
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Carnap	0.125
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	AOS:Aesthetics	0.124
xian:Heidegger	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.122
AOS:Aesthetics	xian:Kant	0.122
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.121
tradition:analytic	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.121
tradition:continental	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.121
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Leibniz	0.12
xian:Plato	xian:Aristotle	0.12
xian:Marx	tradition:continental	0.12
xian:Spinoza	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.12
AOS:Philosophy of Biology	xian:Quine	0.12
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	not AOS:Normative Ethics	0.12
tradition:continental	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.119
tradition:analytic	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.119
tradition:analytic	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
AOS:Metaphilosophy	xian:Wittgenstein	0.117
tradition:continental	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	metasurvey:accuracy	-0.116
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Quine	0.115
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.115
xian:Frege	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.114
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	xian:Socrates	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Mind	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.114
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Law	xian:Rawls	0.113
tradition:analytic	AOS:Epistemology	0.112
tradition:continental	not AOS:Epistemology	0.112
AOS:Philosophy of Action	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.111
metasurvey:accuracy	xian:Spinoza	0.111
metasurvey:accuracy	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.111
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Kant	0.111
xian:Heidegger	xian:Nietzsche	0.11
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.11
metasurvey:accuracy	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.109
xian:Locke	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	xian:Carnap	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	xian:Wittgenstein	0.109
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Aristotle	0.109
AOS:Metaphysics	not xian:Kant	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Language	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.109
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.108
AOS:Normative Ethics	not xian:Frege	0.108
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.107
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Hume	0.107
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.107
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	xian:Rawls	0.106
AOS:Metaphysics	xian:Aristotle	0.106
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.106
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Socrates	0.105
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	xian:Quine	0.105
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.104
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.104
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Rawls	0.103
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.103
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Kant	0.103
AOS:Metaphysics	not xian:Rawls	0.102
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.101

Correlations between orientation and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
metasurvey:accuracy	year_of_birth	0.286
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	gender:female	0.22
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	gender:female	0.22
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	phd_region:Canada	0.215
metasurvey:accuracy	phd_region:United States	0.21
metasurvey:accuracy	year_of_phd	0.208
xian:Lewis	year_of_birth	0.154
xian:Aristotle	year_of_birth	-0.149
metasurvey:accuracy	not nationality_region:Other	0.148
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	phd_region:Canada	0.146
metasurvey:accuracy	not nationality_region:Canada	0.144
xian:Marx	phd_region:Canada	0.143
AOS:Philosophy of Language	affil:region:Europe	0.136
not AOS:Aesthetics	year_of_phd	0.136
tradition:analytic	year_of_birth	0.135
tradition:continental	year_of_birth	-0.135
xian:Quine	year_of_phd	-0.129
not xian:Aristotle	year_of_phd	0.126
metasurvey:accuracy	not affil:region:Canada	0.124
not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	year_of_phd	0.12
not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	year_of_phd	0.12
xian:Frege	nationality_region:Europe	0.114
xian:Lewis	year_of_phd	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Language	nationality_region:Europe	0.113
metasurvey:accuracy	nationality_region:United States	0.112
tradition:analytic	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.112
tradition:continental	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.112
not AOS:Continental Philosophy	year_of_phd	0.111
AOS:Continental Philosophy	year_of_birth	-0.11
metasurvey:accuracy	gender:male	0.109
not AOS:Philosophy of Language	nationality_region:United States	0.108
xian:Wittgenstein	year_of_birth	-0.108
tradition:analytic	year_of_phd	0.105
tradition:continental	year_of_phd	-0.105
AOS:Philosophy of Action	affil:region:Europe	0.103
xian:Quine	nationality_region:United States	0.103
AOS:Metaphysics	gender:male	0.103
not AOS:Metaphysics	gender:female	0.103
xian:Husserl	nationality_region:United States	0.102
metasurvey:accuracy	nationality_region:Australasia	0.101
xian:Frege	affil:region:Europe	0.101
not xian:Wittgenstein	year_of_phd	0.101
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	year_of_phd	-0.1

Correlations between background and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
year_of_phd	year_of_birth	0.945
phd_region:Australasia	nationality_region:Australasia	0.67
affil:region:Australasia	nationality_region:Australasia	0.626
nationality_region:United States	affil:region:United States	0.596
affil:region:Canada	nationality_region:Canada	0.582
affil:region:Australasia	phd_region:Australasia	0.558
nationality_region:United Kingdom	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.558
affil:region:Europe	nationality_region:Europe	0.558
phd_region:Europe	nationality_region:Europe	0.544
phd_region:United States	nationality_region:United States	0.492
phd_region:Europe	affil:region:Europe	0.491
phd_region:United States	affil:region:United States	0.48
phd_region:United Kingdom	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.454
nationality_region:United Kingdom	phd_region:United Kingdom	0.418
nationality_region:United Kingdom	not affil:region:United States	0.362
nationality_region:United States	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.358
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.355
nationality_region:Canada	phd_region:Canada	0.354
phd_region:United Kingdom	not affil:region:United States	0.319
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:United Kingdom	0.313
nationality_region:Europe	not affil:region:United States	0.286
affil:region:Europe	not nationality_region:United States	0.257
phd_region:United Kingdom	not nationality_region:United States	0.247
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:Europe	0.246
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:Europe	0.244
phd_region:Europe	not affil:region:United States	0.214
phd_region:Europe	not nationality_region:United States	0.202
affil:region:Canada	phd_region:Canada	0.2
nationality_region:United States	year_of_phd	-0.195
year_of_phd	not affil:region:United States	0.192
phd_region:Australasia	not nationality_region:United States	0.185
phd_region:Australasia	not affil:region:United States	0.178
affil:region:Australasia	not nationality_region:United States	0.176
nationality_region:Canada	not affil:region:United States	0.17
nationality_region:Australasia	not affil:region:United States	0.161
nationality_region:Europe	year_of_phd	0.156
nationality_region:United States	not affil:region:Canada	0.155
year_of_phd	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.147
affil:region:United States	year_of_birth	-0.136
nationality_region:United States	year_of_birth	-0.135
year_of_birth	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.133
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:Australasia	0.132
nationality_region:Europe	year_of_birth	0.131
nationality_region:Canada	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.126
affil:region:Europe	response_time	0.119
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:Australasia	0.109

849 variable pairs shown.

Correlations between main answers and main answers

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Moral judgment:cognitivism	0.562
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Mind:non-physicalism	0.497
A priori knowledge:yes	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.467
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.411
God:atheism	Mind:physicalism	0.393
Science:scientific realism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.393
Free will:libertarianism	Mind:non-physicalism	0.386
Free will:libertarianism	God:theism	0.385
Knowledge:rationalism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.383
Personal identity:psychological view	Teletransporter:survival	0.375
Truth:correspondence	Science:scientific realism	0.362
Knowledge:rationalism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.36
God:atheism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.351
Free will:libertarianism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.343
Epistemic justification:internalism	Mental content:internalism	0.342
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.335
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.333
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.329
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.321
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Science:scientific realism	0.32
Knowledge:rationalism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.307
Laws of nature:Humean	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.303
Mind:non-physicalism	Knowledge:rationalism	0.302
Science:scientific anti-realism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.299
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Truth:correspondence	0.294
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.288
Truth:correspondence	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.287
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	not Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.286
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Trolley problem:switch	0.284
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.276
Free will:libertarianism	Time:A-theory	0.271
Knowledge:rationalism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.268
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.26
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.258
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Science:scientific realism	0.257
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.257
Science:scientific realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.255
A priori knowledge:yes	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.253
Aesthetic value:objective	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.253
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.252
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Mind:physicalism	0.252
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.249
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Mind:non-physicalism	0.248
A priori knowledge:no	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.248
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Mind:physicalism	0.247
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.245
Mind:physicalism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.244
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Time:B-theory	0.243
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.243
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Free will:libertarianism	0.24
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.238
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.237
Aesthetic value:subjective	Knowledge:empiricism	0.237
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not Personal identity:further-fact view	0.235
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.234
Time:A-theory	Mind:non-physicalism	0.23
Mind:non-physicalism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.23
Meta-ethics:moral realism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.229
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Laws of nature:Humean	0.229
Free will:libertarianism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.228
Aesthetic value:objective	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.228
Free will:no free will	External world:skepticism	0.227
A priori knowledge:no	Mind:physicalism	0.225
God:atheism	Time:B-theory	0.224
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.221
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Time:B-theory	0.22
Laws of nature:Humean	External world:skepticism	0.22
Mental content:internalism	Proper names:Fregean	0.219
External world:idealism	Truth:epistemic	0.218
God:atheism	Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.218
Mental content:externalism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.218
Knowledge:rationalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.216
Meta-ethics:moral realism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.215
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Time:A-theory	0.213
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Science:scientific realism	0.212
External world:non-skeptical realism	Mind:physicalism	0.209
Politics:communitarianism	Normative ethics:virtue ethics	0.207
Moral judgment:cognitivism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.207
Mind:non-physicalism	Trolley problem:don't switch	0.205
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.204
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	0.204
God:atheism	Trolley problem:switch	0.203
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.202
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Free will:libertarianism	0.199
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.199
Science:scientific realism	Trolley problem:switch	0.199
Mind:physicalism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.199
Truth:correspondence	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.198
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Mental content:externalism	0.198
Science:scientific realism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.196
Mind:physicalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.196
Perceptual experience:representationalism	External world:non-skeptical realism	0.196
Trolley problem:don't switch	Time:A-theory	0.195
Meta-ethics:moral realism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.194
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Truth:correspondence	0.19
Epistemic justification:internalism	Moral motivation:internalism	0.19
God:atheism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.188
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Time:B-theory	0.186
God:atheism	Perceptual experience:representationalism	0.185
Laws of nature:non-Humean	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.185
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Metaphilosophy:naturalism	0.184
God:atheism	Politics:egalitarianism	0.182
Truth:correspondence	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.181
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Trolley problem:switch	0.18
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	0.18
God:atheism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.179
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.175
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Free will:libertarianism	0.174
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.174
God:theism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.174
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.174
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.173
External world:non-skeptical realism	Mental content:externalism	0.172
Mind:physicalism	not Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.172
Free will:libertarianism	not Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.17
Truth:correspondence	Proper names:Millian	0.169
Free will:compatibilism	Perceptual experience:representationalism	0.168
Free will:libertarianism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.168
Personal identity:psychological view	Time:B-theory	0.167
Knowledge:rationalism	Science:scientific realism	0.166
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.166
Logic:non-classical	not Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.166
Science:scientific realism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.165
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.165
Science:scientific realism	Logic:classical	0.164
Time:B-theory	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.164
Time:A-theory	Aesthetic value:objective	0.164
Epistemic justification:externalism	Mind:physicalism	0.163
Free will:libertarianism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.162
Politics:egalitarianism	Time:B-theory	0.161
External world:non-skeptical realism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.161
God:theism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.16
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Normative ethics:consequentialism	0.159
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Perceptual experience:qualia theory	0.158
Free will:libertarianism	Politics:libertarianism	0.158
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Science:scientific realism	0.156
Science:scientific realism	Mental content:externalism	0.156
Science:scientific realism	Mind:physicalism	0.156
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.154
Knowledge:rationalism	God:theism	0.154
Aesthetic value:objective	Moral motivation:externalism	0.154
Free will:libertarianism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.154
Logic:non-classical	not Truth:correspondence	0.154
Perceptual experience:representationalism	Politics:egalitarianism	0.153
Science:scientific realism	Proper names:Millian	0.153
God:atheism	Science:scientific realism	0.152
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.15
Zombies:metaphysically possible	God:theism	0.149
Knowledge claims:relativism	External world:skepticism	0.149
Science:scientific realism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.149
External world:idealism	God:theism	0.149
External world:non-skeptical realism	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.148
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	Mind:physicalism	0.147
Proper names:Fregean	Moral motivation:internalism	0.146
Abstract objects:Platonism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.146
Truth:correspondence	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.146
Knowledge:rationalism	Truth:correspondence	0.145
Teletransporter:death	Time:A-theory	0.145
External world:idealism	Time:A-theory	0.145
God:theism	Moral judgment:cognitvism	0.145
Personal identity:biological view	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.144
Knowledge:rationalism	Time:A-theory	0.144
Logic:non-classical	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.144
Truth:correspondence	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.143
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.143
Teletransporter:survival	Laws of nature:Humean	0.143
Free will:compatibilism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.142
Epistemic justification:externalism	Knowledge:empiricism	0.142
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Knowledge:rationalism	0.141
Politics:egalitarianism	Trolley problem:switch	0.141
Newcomb's problem:one box	Time:A-theory	0.141
Mental content:internalism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.139
Newcomb's problem:one box	Mind:non-physicalism	0.139
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.139
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Time:A-theory	0.138
Personal identity:psychological view	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.138
Truth:deflationary	Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	0.136
Newcomb's problem:one box	Logic:non-classical	0.136
Free will:libertarianism	A priori knowledge:yes	0.135
Personal identity:psychological view	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.135
Epistemic justification:externalism	not Normative ethics:deontology	0.134
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	Mental content:externalism	0.133
Truth:correspondence	A priori knowledge:yes	0.133
Science:scientific realism	Time:B-theory	0.133
Mental content:externalism	Time:B-theory	0.133
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Aesthetic value:objective	0.132
Epistemic justification:externalism	Time:B-theory	0.132
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	Proper names:Millian	0.13
Personal identity:psychological view	Laws of nature:Humean	0.13
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Time:A-theory	0.129
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.129
God:atheism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.129
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	External world:skepticism	0.129
Time:A-theory	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.129
Politics:communitarianism	Newcomb's problem:one box	0.128
Personal identity:psychological view	Knowledge:empiricism	0.127
Mental content:internalism	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.127
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Personal identity:biological view	0.126
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	Laws of nature:Humean	0.126
Proper names:Millian	Mind:physicalism	0.126
Truth:deflationary	not Free will:libertarianism	0.126
Logic:non-classical	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.126
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.125
Abstract objects:Platonism	Normative ethics:deontology	0.125
External world:non-skeptical realism	Proper names:Millian	0.125
God:atheism	Newcomb's problem:two boxes	0.125
Free will:libertarianism	Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.124
Free will:libertarianism	Trolley problem:don't switch	0.124
Free will:compatibilism	Mental content:externalism	0.124
Free will:libertarianism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.123
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.121
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Personal identity:psychological view	0.121
A priori knowledge:yes	Normative ethics:deontology	0.121
A priori knowledge:no	External world:skepticism	0.121
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Knowledge:rationalism	0.121
Science:scientific realism	Newcomb's problem:two boxes	0.121
Time:A-theory	Abstract objects:Platonism	0.12
Epistemic justification:internalism	Truth:epistemic	0.119
External world:non-skeptical realism	Trolley problem:switch	0.119
Epistemic justification:externalism	Proper names:Millian	0.118
A priori knowledge:no	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.118
God:theism	Laws of nature:non-Humean	0.116
External world:idealism	Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	0.115
Truth:correspondence	Trolley problem:switch	0.114
Proper names:Millian	Time:B-theory	0.113
Politics:egalitarianism	Abstract objects:nominalism	0.113
Mental content:externalism	Mind:physicalism	0.112
External world:idealism	Normative ethics:deontology	0.111
Zombies:metaphysically possible	A priori knowledge:yes	0.11
Normative ethics:consequentialism	Truth:correspondence	0.11
Politics:egalitarianism	Proper names:Fregean	0.11
Truth:epistemic	Mental content:internalism	0.11
Logic:non-classical	not External world:non-skeptical realism	0.109
Politics:egalitarianism	Mind:physicalism	0.108
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.107
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	0.107
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	Proper names:Millian	0.106
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	0.106
Science:scientific realism	Epistemic justification:externalism	0.106
Science:scientific realism	not Zombies:inconceivable	0.106
Laws of nature:non-Humean	Trolley problem:switch	0.105
Perceptual experience:qualia theory	A priori knowledge:yes	0.104
Personal identity:psychological view	not Politics:communitarianism	0.104
Moral judgment:cognitivism	Mental content:externalism	0.103
Zombies:metaphysically possible	Epistemic justification:internalism	0.103
Teletransporter:death	Moral motivation:externalism	0.103
Personal identity:psychological view	Aesthetic value:subjective	0.102
Science:scientific realism	Moral motivation:externalism	0.102
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	Mental content:externalism	0.102
A priori knowledge:yes	Time:A-theory	0.102
Moral motivation:internalism	Newcomb's problem:one box	0.102
A priori knowledge:no	not Knowledge claims:invariantism	0.102
Knowledge:rationalism	Perceptual experience:qualia theory	0.101
Knowledge claims:invariantism	Personal identity:further-fact view	0.101
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	Normative ethics:deontology	0.101
Aesthetic value:objective	not External world:skepticism	0.1

Correlations between main answers and orientation

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
God:theism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.351
Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Hume	0.31
Free will:libertarianism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.262
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	xian:Hume	0.242
A priori knowledge:yes	metasurvey:accuracy	0.24
External world:non-skeptical realism	tradition:analytic	0.238
not External world:non-skeptical realism	tradition:continental	0.238
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	xian:Hume	0.228
Trolley problem:switch	metasurvey:accuracy	0.223
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	xian:Quine	0.22
Mental content:internalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.218
External world:non-skeptical realism	not xian:Kant	0.218
Normative ethics:deontology	xian:Kant	0.215
Normative ethics:virtue ethics	xian:Aristotle	0.214
Knowledge:empiricism	xian:Hume	0.211
Abstract objects:nominalism	xian:Hume	0.211
Science:scientific realism	tradition:analytic	0.21
Science:scientific anti-realism	tradition:continental	0.21
A priori knowledge:yes	not xian:Quine	0.21
Science:scientific realism	not xian:Kant	0.206
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.205
Perceptual experience:representationalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.203
Time:A-theory	not xian:Lewis	0.202
Moral judgment:cognitivism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.196
Trolley problem:switch	tradition:analytic	0.195
Trolley problem:don't switch	tradition:continental	0.195
Time:A-theory	xian:Aristotle	0.195
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	xian:Quine	0.193
Mind:physicalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.193
not Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.191
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.19
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.19
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	metasurvey:accuracy	0.189
Truth:epistemic	tradition:continental	0.186
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Plato	0.184
Mind:physicalism	xian:Hume	0.182
Knowledge:empiricism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.181
Politics:communitarianism	not xian:Rawls	0.181
Time:B-theory	metasurvey:accuracy	0.178
Knowledge:rationalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.176
Normative ethics:virtue ethics	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.175
Zombies:metaphysically possible	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.175
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Plato	0.174
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Lewis	0.173
Knowledge claims:invariantism	tradition:analytic	0.17
Mind:non-physicalism	tradition:continental	0.169
Mind:physicalism	tradition:analytic	0.169
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.167
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Hume	0.166
not Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Epistemology	0.166
not External world:non-skeptical realism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.166
Mind:physicalism	xian:Lewis	0.164
not Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.164
God:atheism	tradition:analytic	0.163
Truth:correspondence	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.162
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.16
God:atheism	not xian:Plato	0.16
Meta-ethics:moral realism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.158
Normative ethics:deontology	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.158
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.157
Normative ethics:consequentialism	tradition:analytic	0.156
External world:idealism	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.153
Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.152
Normative ethics:deontology	xian:Rawls	0.152
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Metaphysics	0.152
Truth:correspondence	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.152
Knowledge claims:contextualism	xian:Marx	0.151
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Husserl	0.151
Truth:correspondence	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.151
Aesthetic value:subjective	xian:Hume	0.151
Moral motivation:externalism	not xian:Kant	0.151
Proper names:Fregean	xian:Frege	0.15
A priori knowledge:yes	AOS:Metaphysics	0.15
Politics:communitarianism	xian:Wittgenstein	0.15
Newcomb's problem:one box	xian:Wittgenstein	0.15
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.15
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.149
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.149
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.147
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.146
Time:A-theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.145
Time:B-theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.145
Meta-ethics:moral realism	tradition:analytic	0.143
Science:scientific realism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.143
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Aristotle	0.142
Meta-ethics:moral realism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.142
God:theism	xian:Aristotle	0.142
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Moore	0.142
Science:scientific realism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.142
Mind:physicalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.142
God:atheism	xian:Hume	0.141
Knowledge:rationalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.141
Science:scientific realism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.141
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.141
Science:scientific anti-realism	xian:Nietzsche	0.141
Mind:non-physicalism	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.141
Personal identity:further-fact view	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.14
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not xian:Kant	0.14
A priori knowledge:no	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.139
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	xian:Nietzsche	0.139
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.138
Mind:physicalism	xian:Quine	0.138
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	xian:Hume	0.138
not Politics:communitarianism	xian:Marx	0.138
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Aristotle	0.138
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	xian:Frege	0.137
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.136
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.136
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	xian:Plato	0.136
Mind:non-physicalism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.136
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.135
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Frege	0.135
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.135
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.134
Perceptual experience:representationalism	tradition:analytic	0.134
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	xian:Rawls	0.134
External world:skepticism	xian:Hume	0.134
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.134
Normative ethics:consequentialism	xian:Mill	0.133
Knowledge:rationalism	xian:Frege	0.132
Politics:communitarianism	xian:Plato	0.132
Free will:no free will	xian:Spinoza	0.132
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.132
Proper names:Fregean	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.132
Truth:epistemic	xian:Kant	0.131
A priori knowledge:no	xian:Mill	0.131
Abstract objects:nominalism	xian:Nietzsche	0.131
not Truth:correspondence	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.131
Epistemic justification:internalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.131
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.13
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	AOS:Metaphysics	0.13
Free will:no free will	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.13
not Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Quine	0.13
Aesthetic value:objective	xian:Aristotle	0.129
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.129
Mind:physicalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.129
Mental content:externalism	tradition:analytic	0.128
Knowledge claims:contextualism	xian:Hegel	0.128
Logic:non-classical	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.128
Free will:no free will	xian:Quine	0.128
Mental content:internalism	tradition:continental	0.128
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.128
Truth:correspondence	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.127
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.127
Knowledge claims:relativism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.126
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.126
not Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.126
God:atheism	not xian:Kant	0.125
Epistemic justification:externalism	not xian:Kant	0.125
not Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.125
Meta-ethics:moral realism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.124
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.124
Abstract objects:Platonism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.124
Mind:physicalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.123
Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Lewis	0.123
Time:B-theory	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.123
Mental content:internalism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.123
God:atheism	xian:Quine	0.122
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.122
Time:A-theory	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.122
Zombies:inconceivable	xian:Wittgenstein	0.122
Zombies:inconceivable	AOS:Aesthetics	0.122
Truth:epistemic	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.121
Truth:correspondence	xian:Locke	0.121
Epistemic justification:internalism	AOS:Epistemology	0.121
Science:scientific anti-realism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.121
Truth:epistemic	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.12
Logic:non-classical	xian:Hegel	0.12
Mental content:internalism	not xian:Davidson	0.12
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	not AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.12
Newcomb's problem:one box	not xian:Lewis	0.119
not External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Spinoza	0.119
Personal identity:psychological view	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.118
Free will:libertarianism	xian:Aristotle	0.118
Abstract objects:Platonism	xian:Moore	0.118
Zombies:inconceivable	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.118
Perceptual experience:representationalism	not AOS:Metaphilosophy	0.118
Zombies:metaphysically possible	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
Zombies:metaphysically possible	xian:Leibniz	0.117
Knowledge claims:invariantism	xian:Moore	0.117
God:theism	xian:Leibniz	0.117
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
Mental content:internalism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.117
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	0.117
External world:idealism	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.117
Knowledge:rationalism	not xian:Quine	0.117
Knowledge:rationalism	xian:Moore	0.116
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.116
Normative ethics:consequentialism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.115
External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Lewis	0.115
Logic:classical	tradition:analytic	0.114
Logic:non-classical	tradition:continental	0.114
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.114
Politics:communitarianism	not AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.114
Science:scientific realism	not xian:Wittgenstein	0.113
Free will:compatibilism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.112
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.112
Zombies:inconceivable	xian:Spinoza	0.112
Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.111
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.111
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Carnap	0.111
Free will:libertarianism	not xian:Hume	0.111
not Normative ethics:virtue ethics	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.111
Politics:communitarianism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.11
A priori knowledge:yes	xian:Frege	0.11
Politics:libertarianism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.11
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Quine	0.11
Mental content:externalism	not xian:Leibniz	0.11
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Leibniz	0.11
not External world:non-skeptical realism	xian:Heidegger	0.11
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Moore	0.11
Personal identity:biological view	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.109
Truth:deflationary	xian:Hume	0.109
God:atheism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.109
Aesthetic value:subjective	xian:Carnap	0.109
Science:scientific anti-realism	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.109
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.109
Truth:deflationary	AOS:Metaphilosophy	0.108
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Decision Theory	0.108
Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Moore	0.108
Free will:compatibilism	not xian:Leibniz	0.108
Mental content:externalism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.108
Time:B-theory	not xian:Kant	0.108
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.108
Free will:compatibilism	xian:Davidson	0.107
Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Applied Ethics	0.107
Abstract objects:Platonism	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.107
Laws of nature:non-Humean	xian:Locke	0.107
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	xian:Davidson	0.107
Politics:egalitarianism	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.107
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.107
Perceptual experience:representationalism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.106
Knowledge claims:invariantism	metasurvey:accuracy	0.106
Trolley problem:don't switch	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.106
Knowledge:empiricism	xian:Carnap	0.105
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Hegel	0.105
Trolley problem:don't switch	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.105
Mental content:internalism	xian:Spinoza	0.105
Logic:classical	not xian:Kant	0.105
Mind:physicalism	not xian:Kant	0.105
Mind:physicalism	AOS:Philosophy of Probability	0.104
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.104
Mind:non-physicalism	xian:Husserl	0.104
Free will:libertarianism	not xian:Carnap	0.104
not External world:skepticism	AOS:Metaphysics	0.104
Moral judgment:cognitivism	xian:Aristotle	0.103
Science:scientific realism	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.103
Knowledge:empiricism	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.103
Laws of nature:non-Humean	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.103
God:theism	not AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.103
Logic:classical	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.103
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	AOS:General Philosophy of Science	0.102
Moral judgment:cognitivism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.102
Truth:epistemic	xian:Rawls	0.102
Politics:egalitarianism	xian:Kant	0.102
not Knowledge claims:invariantism	AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	0.102
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.102
God:atheism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.101
Knowledge:rationalism	AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	0.101
Metaphilosophy:naturalism	tradition:analytic	0.101
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.101
Moral motivation:internalism	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.101
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not xian:Kant	0.101
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.101
Knowledge claims:invariantism	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.101
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism	tradition:continental	0.101
not Laws of nature:Humean	xian:Aristotle	0.101
Meta-ethics:moral realism	xian:Plato	0.1
Knowledge claims:contextualism	AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	0.1
Mind:physicalism	xian:Carnap	0.1
not Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible	AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	0.1
God:atheism	not AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.1
Moral judgment:cognitivism	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.1
Abstract objects:nominalism	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.1
External world:non-skeptical realism	not xian:Leibniz	0.1

Correlations between main answers and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.203
Normative ethics:consequentialism	phd_region:Australasia	0.183
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	phd_region:United Kingdom	0.178
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	nationality_region:United Kingdom	0.158
Laws of nature:Humean	year_of_phd	0.158
Time:B-theory	affil:region:Australasia	0.149
Proper names:Fregean	not affil:region:United States	0.149
Truth:epistemic	gender:female	0.147
Proper names:Fregean	affil:region:Europe	0.146
Mental content:externalism	year_of_phd	0.146
Laws of nature:Humean	year_of_birth	0.146
Mental content:externalism	year_of_birth	0.145
Time:A-theory	year_of_birth	-0.143
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	not affil:region:United States	0.142
Trolley problem:switch	gender:male	0.141
Trolley problem:don't switch	gender:female	0.141
Normative ethics:deontology	affil:region:United States	0.137
Teletransporter:survival	year_of_birth	0.136
A priori knowledge:yes	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.135
Normative ethics:consequentialism	affil:region:Australasia	0.132
Aesthetic value:subjective	nationality_region:Europe	0.132
Normative ethics:deontology	phd_region:United States	0.131
Proper names:Millian	phd_region:United States	0.13
Knowledge claims:relativism	year_of_phd	0.13
Meta-ethics:moral realism	not nationality_region:Europe	0.128
Proper names:Fregean	phd_region:Europe	0.126
Knowledge claims:invariantism	gender:male	0.126
Time:B-theory	nationality_region:Australasia	0.126
Proper names:Fregean	nationality_region:Europe	0.124
Time:A-theory	year_of_phd	-0.124
Proper names:Millian	nationality_region:United States	0.123
not Normative ethics:deontology	nationality_region:Australasia	0.122
Personal identity:further-fact view	nationality_region:United States	0.121
Knowledge claims:invariantism	year_of_birth	0.12
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	nationality_region:Europe	0.12
Knowledge:rationalism	gender:male	0.116
Normative ethics:deontology	nationality_region:United States	0.116
A priori knowledge:no	gender:female	0.116
Science:scientific anti-realism	gender:female	0.116
not Knowledge claims:contextualism	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.116
Politics:libertarianism	gender:male	0.115
Abstract objects:Platonism	gender:male	0.115
not Politics:libertarianism	gender:female	0.115
Abstract objects:nominalism	gender:female	0.115
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.115
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	phd_region:Canada	0.113
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	nationality_region:United States	0.113
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes	gender:male	0.112
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no	gender:female	0.112
Teletransporter:survival	year_of_phd	0.111
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	gender:female	0.111
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism	gender:female	0.111
Perceptual experience:representationalism	affil:region:Australasia	0.109
Laws of nature:Humean	gender:female	0.109
Laws of nature:Humean	gender:female	0.109
Moral judgment:cognitvism	nationality_region:United States	0.109
Mind:physicalism	nationality_region:Australasia	0.108
External world:skepticism	year_of_phd	0.107
Moral judgment:cognitvism	phd_region:United States	0.107
A priori knowledge:no	year_of_phd	-0.107
Free will:libertarianism	not affil:region:Canada	0.106
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory	nationality_region:Canada	0.105
Meta-ethics:moral realism	nationality_region:United States	0.104
Zombies:metaphysically possible	affil:region:United States	0.103
Teletransporter:survival	affil:region:Australasia	0.102
External world:idealism	gender:female	0.101
Mind:non-physicalism	nationality_region:United States	0.101
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism	not phd_region:United States	0.101
God:atheism	not nationality_region:United States	0.1

Correlations between orientation and orientation

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
tradition:continental	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.457
tradition:analytic	not AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.457
xian:Heidegger	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.452
xian:Hegel	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.438
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.388
xian:Heidegger	tradition:continental	0.381
tradition:continental	xian:Hegel	0.374
tradition:analytic	not xian:Hegel	0.374
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Plato	0.357
tradition:continental	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.343
tradition:analytic	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.343
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Aristotle	0.33
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Rawls	0.325
AOS:Meta-Ethics	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.316
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Normative Ethics	0.312
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.3
AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.274
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.265
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	xian:Kant	0.261
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Spinoza	0.254
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.252
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.243
xian:Frege	xian:Russell	0.22
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Mill	0.208
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Probability	0.203
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	AOS:Philosophy of Biology	0.201
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Mill	0.199
tradition:continental	xian:Kant	0.199
tradition:analytic	not xian:Kant	0.199
AOS:Applied Ethics	xian:Mill	0.198
xian:Russell	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.198
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	xian:Marx	0.195
AOS:Normative Ethics	AOS:Applied Ethics	0.195
AOS:Metaphysics	xian:Lewis	0.195
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.194
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.194
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Frege	0.192
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.191
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.19
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Russell	0.188
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.187
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Kant	0.185
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	AOS:Decision Theory	0.184
xian:Spinoza	xian:Leibniz	0.183
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.182
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	xian:Husserl	0.178
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Lewis	0.176
xian:Husserl	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.176
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.175
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	xian:Carnap	0.173
AOS:Philosophy of Law	xian:Mill	0.173
xian:Heidegger	xian:Husserl	0.172
AOS:Philosophy of Biology	xian:Hume	0.172
tradition:continental	xian:Husserl	0.171
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	metasurvey:accuracy	-0.171
tradition:analytic	not xian:Husserl	0.171
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Rawls	0.17
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Rawls	0.168
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.167
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	xian:Aristotle	0.165
xian:Marx	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.163
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Carnap	0.16
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.157
tradition:continental	xian:Nietzsche	0.155
tradition:analytic	not xian:Nietzsche	0.155
xian:Hegel	xian:Kant	0.153
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.153
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.153
xian:Rawls	xian:Mill	0.152
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Mill	0.152
xian:Nietzsche	AOS:Aesthetics	0.151
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.151
xian:Davidson	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.148
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Hegel	0.147
xian:Russell	xian:Carnap	0.142
AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	xian:Carnap	0.142
AOS:Applied Ethics	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.141
xian:Rawls	xian:Kant	0.141
xian:Wittgenstein	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.139
xian:Plato	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.138
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.138
AOS:Normative Ethics	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.137
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.136
xian:Descartes	AOS:Epistemology	0.135
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	0.134
AOS:Normative Ethics	not AOS:Epistemology	0.134
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.133
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	AOS:Decision Theory	0.133
xian:Descartes	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.133
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.133
xian:Hegel	AOS:Continental Philosophy	0.131
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	xian:Hume	0.131
xian:Locke	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.13
xian:Russell	AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics	0.13
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Epistemology	0.13
metasurvey:accuracy	not AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	0.13
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	xian:Wittgenstein	0.129
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.129
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.128
xian:Hume	xian:Mill	0.126
AOS:Philosophy of Language	not xian:Kant	0.126
xian:Marx	xian:Hegel	0.125
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Carnap	0.125
AOS:19th Century Philosophy	AOS:Aesthetics	0.124
xian:Heidegger	AOS:19th Century Philosophy	0.122
AOS:Aesthetics	xian:Kant	0.122
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	0.121
tradition:analytic	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.121
tradition:continental	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.121
AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy	xian:Leibniz	0.12
xian:Plato	xian:Aristotle	0.12
xian:Marx	tradition:continental	0.12
xian:Spinoza	AOS:Asian Philosophy	0.12
AOS:Philosophy of Biology	xian:Quine	0.12
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	not AOS:Normative Ethics	0.12
tradition:continental	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.119
tradition:analytic	not AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.119
tradition:analytic	AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
AOS:Metaphilosophy	xian:Wittgenstein	0.117
tradition:continental	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.117
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	metasurvey:accuracy	-0.116
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	xian:Quine	0.115
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science	0.115
xian:Frege	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.114
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy	xian:Socrates	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Mind	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.114
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Law	xian:Rawls	0.113
tradition:analytic	AOS:Epistemology	0.112
tradition:continental	not AOS:Epistemology	0.112
AOS:Philosophy of Action	AOS:Philosophy of Law	0.111
metasurvey:accuracy	xian:Spinoza	0.111
metasurvey:accuracy	AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.111
AOS:Normative Ethics	xian:Kant	0.111
xian:Heidegger	xian:Nietzsche	0.11
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.11
metasurvey:accuracy	AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.109
xian:Locke	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Probability	xian:Carnap	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	xian:Wittgenstein	0.109
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Aristotle	0.109
AOS:Metaphysics	not xian:Kant	0.109
AOS:Philosophy of Language	not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	0.109
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Metaphysics	0.108
AOS:Normative Ethics	not xian:Frege	0.108
xian:Frege	AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.107
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Hume	0.107
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.107
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	xian:Rawls	0.106
AOS:Metaphysics	xian:Aristotle	0.106
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	not AOS:Philosophy of Mind	0.106
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy	xian:Socrates	0.105
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science	xian:Quine	0.105
AOS:General Philosophy of Science	not AOS:Philosophy of Language	0.104
AOS:Meta-Ethics	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.104
AOS:Decision Theory	xian:Rawls	0.103
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	not AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	0.103
metasurvey:accuracy	not xian:Kant	0.103
AOS:Metaphysics	not xian:Rawls	0.102
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic	AOS:20th Century Philosophy	0.101

Correlations between orientation and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
metasurvey:accuracy	year_of_birth	0.286
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	gender:female	0.22
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	gender:female	0.22
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality	phd_region:Canada	0.215
metasurvey:accuracy	phd_region:United States	0.21
metasurvey:accuracy	year_of_phd	0.208
xian:Lewis	year_of_birth	0.154
xian:Aristotle	year_of_birth	-0.149
metasurvey:accuracy	not nationality_region:Other	0.148
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy	phd_region:Canada	0.146
metasurvey:accuracy	not nationality_region:Canada	0.144
xian:Marx	phd_region:Canada	0.143
AOS:Philosophy of Language	affil:region:Europe	0.136
not AOS:Aesthetics	year_of_phd	0.136
tradition:analytic	year_of_birth	0.135
tradition:continental	year_of_birth	-0.135
xian:Quine	year_of_phd	-0.129
not xian:Aristotle	year_of_phd	0.126
metasurvey:accuracy	not affil:region:Canada	0.124
not AOS:19th Century Philosophy	year_of_phd	0.12
not AOS:Philosophy of Religion	year_of_phd	0.12
xian:Frege	nationality_region:Europe	0.114
xian:Lewis	year_of_phd	0.114
AOS:Philosophy of Language	nationality_region:Europe	0.113
metasurvey:accuracy	nationality_region:United States	0.112
tradition:analytic	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.112
tradition:continental	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.112
not AOS:Continental Philosophy	year_of_phd	0.111
AOS:Continental Philosophy	year_of_birth	-0.11
metasurvey:accuracy	gender:male	0.109
not AOS:Philosophy of Language	nationality_region:United States	0.108
xian:Wittgenstein	year_of_birth	-0.108
tradition:analytic	year_of_phd	0.105
tradition:continental	year_of_phd	-0.105
AOS:Philosophy of Action	affil:region:Europe	0.103
xian:Quine	nationality_region:United States	0.103
AOS:Metaphysics	gender:male	0.103
not AOS:Metaphysics	gender:female	0.103
xian:Husserl	nationality_region:United States	0.102
metasurvey:accuracy	nationality_region:Australasia	0.101
xian:Frege	affil:region:Europe	0.101
not xian:Wittgenstein	year_of_phd	0.101
AOS:20th Century Philosophy	year_of_phd	-0.1

Correlations between background and background

Answer A	Answer B	Correlation coefficient
year_of_phd	year_of_birth	0.945
phd_region:Australasia	nationality_region:Australasia	0.67
affil:region:Australasia	nationality_region:Australasia	0.626
nationality_region:United States	affil:region:United States	0.596
affil:region:Canada	nationality_region:Canada	0.582
affil:region:Australasia	phd_region:Australasia	0.558
nationality_region:United Kingdom	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.558
affil:region:Europe	nationality_region:Europe	0.558
phd_region:Europe	nationality_region:Europe	0.544
phd_region:United States	nationality_region:United States	0.492
phd_region:Europe	affil:region:Europe	0.491
phd_region:United States	affil:region:United States	0.48
phd_region:United Kingdom	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.454
nationality_region:United Kingdom	phd_region:United Kingdom	0.418
nationality_region:United Kingdom	not affil:region:United States	0.362
nationality_region:United States	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.358
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.355
nationality_region:Canada	phd_region:Canada	0.354
phd_region:United Kingdom	not affil:region:United States	0.319
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:United Kingdom	0.313
nationality_region:Europe	not affil:region:United States	0.286
affil:region:Europe	not nationality_region:United States	0.257
phd_region:United Kingdom	not nationality_region:United States	0.247
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:Europe	0.246
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:Europe	0.244
phd_region:Europe	not affil:region:United States	0.214
phd_region:Europe	not nationality_region:United States	0.202
affil:region:Canada	phd_region:Canada	0.2
nationality_region:United States	year_of_phd	-0.195
year_of_phd	not affil:region:United States	0.192
phd_region:Australasia	not nationality_region:United States	0.185
phd_region:Australasia	not affil:region:United States	0.178
affil:region:Australasia	not nationality_region:United States	0.176
nationality_region:Canada	not affil:region:United States	0.17
nationality_region:Australasia	not affil:region:United States	0.161
nationality_region:Europe	year_of_phd	0.156
nationality_region:United States	not affil:region:Canada	0.155
year_of_phd	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.147
affil:region:United States	year_of_birth	-0.136
nationality_region:United States	year_of_birth	-0.135
year_of_birth	affil:region:United Kingdom	0.133
phd_region:United States	not affil:region:Australasia	0.132
nationality_region:Europe	year_of_birth	0.131
nationality_region:Canada	not affil:region:United Kingdom	0.126
affil:region:Europe	response_time	0.119
phd_region:United States	not nationality_region:Australasia	0.109

849 variable pairs shown.