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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 2026-10-08, Ipseity Daily contains
737,452
total observations!

Overall statistics include all valid Yes/No responses, including those with unavailable demographics. Demographic comparisons use the relevant available values; N counts observations, not unique people.

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 5,171 respondents.

All my data is freely and openly available.

Sample Results

Signifier Yes % Trend Report Sex Diff Female Male
kind 92.11 Female +8 (Female N=245; Male N=200) 96 (N=245) 88 (N=200)
social 50.69 Female +5 (Female N=705; Male N=571) 53 (N=705) 48 (N=571)
critical 41.65 Female -17 (Female N=255; Male N=215) 34 (N=255) 51 (N=215)
Star Trek fan 29.52 Female -14 (Female N=205; Male N=181) 22 (N=205) 36 (N=181)
father 17.85 Female -39 (Female N=738; Male N=622) 0 (N=738) 39 (N=622)
retired 10.14 Female +3 (Female N=700; Male N=622) 12 (N=700) 9 (N=622)
retail associate 5.30 Female +3 (Female N=224; Male N=218) 7 (N=224) 4 (N=218)
finsta user 4.96 Female +4 (Female N=225; Male N=185) 7 (N=225) 3 (N=185)
nurse 2.60 Female +5 (Female N=242; Male N=210) 5 (N=242) 0 (N=210)
Zoroastrian 0.00 Not enough data Female +0 (Female N=224; Male N=189) 0 (N=224) 0 (N=189)