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 2026-01-19, Ipseity Daily contains
317,447
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 2,339 respondents.

All my data is freely and openly available.

Sample Results

Signifier Yes % Trend Report Sex Diff Female Male
Independent 78.61 Male +13 72 85
partnered 50.56 Female +5 53 48
girl 47.17 Female +86 87 1
wine lover 34.67 Female +24 47 23
sad 23.21 Female +9 28 19
guitar player 14.15 Male +15 7 22
alcoholic 7.14 Female +2 8 6
therapist 5.08 Female +0 5 5
phd 2.17 Male +1 2 3
security guard 1.05 Female +0 1 1