Survey Update

Since a number of the kind souls who have taken our latest (admittedly long) survey (see here for details) have asked me about the results, I thought I would post a brief update.  As it stands roughly 500 people have completed the survey while another 500 have made it most of the way through.  Most of the participants have been graduate students in philosophy, philosophy professors, or undergraduate philosophy majors.  So far, roughly 25% have been non-philosophers--at least in terms of training!  Hopefully, participants will continue trickling in to take the study.  The more participants the better.  So, if you have a way of spreading the word, please do.  We would greatly appreciate it.

In a few weeks, we will start analyzing the data.  At that time, we will post some of the raw numbers.  We will also (a) explain what we hoped to find, (b) open a thread for discussion concerning what participants thought about the study itself.  More fine-grained analyses won't be available for a while as this is a large data set with several scales and sub-scales.  That being said, we are very grateful to those of you who have already taken it.  Your efforts and patience have really helped turned this study into a success.  We also thank those of you who plan to take it in the (near!) future.

*While we are thanking people, we owe a special debt of gratitude to Thomas Brand--who has amazingly translated the entire survey into Finnish!  The translated version of the survey can be found here. If anyone else wants to translate it into another language, let me know.  Running cross-cultural comparisons would be really fascinating.  If nothing else, there are interesting possibilities as far as collaboration is concerned.  But more on that later!