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 2026-03-08, Ipseity Daily contains
396,943
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 2,843 respondents.

All my data is freely and openly available.

Sample Results

Signifier Yes % Trend Report Sex Diff Female Male
freedom lover 88.44 Male +1 88 89
early riser 62.61 Female +10 67 57
spontaneous 37.55 Female +5 40 35
uncle 26.75 Male +56 1 57
aspiring author 17.30 Female +0 17 17
non-voter 13.06 Female +2 14 12
Phoenix Suns fan 5.53 Female +0 6 6
Minnesota Vikings fan 3.82 Male +1 3 4
police officer 2.02 Male +2 1 3
Brooklyn Nets fan 1.69 Male +2 1 3