Ipseity Daily Ipseity Daily

Human selves are fascinating, and not nearly enough is known about them. Therefore, I am on a mission to collect and freely distribute 1 million human identity observations.

This website - Ipseity Daily - documents the progress.

As of 2025-11-19, Ipseity Daily contains
219,984
total observations!

How Ipseity Daily Works

I am Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones, and I like to ask people Does <signifier> describe you today?.

An identity <signifier> is a word, phrase or emoji that individuals have used to describe themselves. Examples are: dad, American, trusting, Cleveland Browns fan.

Every day, I survey a new random sample of American adults.

So far, I have observations for 707 signifiers from 1,802 respondents.

All my data is freely and openly available.

Sample Results

Signifier Yes % Trend Report Sex Diff Female Male
lifelong learner 87.68 Female +12 93 81
frugal 68.01 Female +3 69 66
data nerd 36.88 Male +15 30 45
mama 27.25 Female +53 55 2
risk-seeking 19.23 Male +5 17 22
union member 9.52 Male +1 9 10
queer 7.75 Female +5 10 5
New York Jets fan 5.26 Male +2 4 6
real estate agent 3.15 Female +3 5 2
welder 0.81 Male +2 0 2