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 2025-09-17, Ipseity Daily contains
115,507
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 1,127 respondents.

All my data is freely and openly available.

Sample Results

Signifier Yes % Trend Report Sex Diff Female Male
calm 85.52 Male +5 83 88
introverted 67.63 Female +0 68 68
risk-averse 56.77 Female +14 64 50
patriot 44.06 Male +1 44 45
Spiritual but not religious 35.98 Female +16 45 29
senior 17.26 Female +10 22 12
student 11.30 Female +4 13 9
personal assistant 5.80 Female +4 8 4
judge 3.66 Male +1 3 4
sophomore 1.52 Female +0 1 1