Chaos Factor
An index of findings
Aella · research & data

Survey reports & data explorers.

Where Aella parks stuff — primarily incomplete AI built summaries, half-finished and finished projects, explorers, experiments, etc.

Disclaimer: Aella has mostly not manually investigated the generated reports to see if they're accurate. Usually they tend to be around 85% accurate when she does check. This is not intended to be complete, do not interpret these as robust.

Replication

do textbook findings show up in the data?
Big Kink Survey
Replication Report
~200 well-established findings from the academic literature — ACEs, the Big Five, fraternal birth order, BDSM & personality, sex differences, psychiatric comorbidity, IQ & ideology — each linked to its best source and checked against the survey data, with obvious confounds (age, sex, weighting) flagged or deconfounded.
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 Big Kink Survey
Findings Explorer
The full machine — thousands of variable-pair findings across the survey, filterable by domain, effect strength and evidence. Each shows the raw effect size with an age/sex-adjusted value alongside it, an evidence badge (replicated / directional / novel / untested), and per-finding flags for confounds, sex-composition and near-tautological pairs. Recomputed on the current 1.07M-respondent data.
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Reports

written, long-form analyses
Study Of Us
Do Hot People Sleep Around More?
13,000 crowd-rated faces vs. their owners' real bodycounts, plus 1.3M strangers' guesses. Hotter men really have had more partners (+32% per SD); hotter women barely (+10%). Guessers assume both, while ignoring the one clue that actually works: age.
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 Big Kink Survey
Who Takes a Sex Survey at 4am?
1.24M timestamped submissions mapped to local time across six continents. The 3–6am crowd reports more of nearly every mental illness — schizophrenia runs 39% above baseline — plus which flashy time-of-day effects are really just age in disguise.
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 Krafft-Ebing, 1892
Psychopathia Sexualis, Quantified
All 238 case studies from the classic medico-forensic text (12th edition), tagged and charted: which fetishes the cases cover, gender, whether the desire is self-directed or aimed at others, age of onset — and the cases where it ever stopped.
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 aella.lol Body Tagger
What Do We Call Bodies?
450k+ yes/no judgments applying words like skinny, fat, curvy and thicc to 125 real bodies. “Curvy” turns out to be a hotness word, not a weight word — plus how politics, personality, gym habits, porn, and your own BMI move the labels. Live-updating.
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 aella.lol Face Games
What Face Measurements Predict
Auto-measured face geometry vs crowd-perceived personality: the babyface-warmth axis, the sexy-vs-trustworthy lip tradeoff, sex differences in taste — and whether the crowd can read anyone at all.
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 Big Kink Survey
Pedophilic Interest, Measured
About 1 in 80 men report arousal to fantasies about children. What sets them apart from equally kinky people, and what they say about fantasy, belief and behavior.
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 Big Kink Survey
Who's Into Bestiality?
~10% report some arousal to animals. Which animals, who's into it — and what's actually unique about them once you compare against equally kinky people.
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 Big Kink Survey
Autogynephilia, Measured At Scale
Blanchard's own items on 285,000 people: AGP fantasy is common in cis straight men, the mirror exists in women — and the famous typology comes out backwards.
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 Big Kink Survey
The Six Gender Identities
Cis, trans, and nonbinary people compared across a million respondents — orientation, mental health, trauma, sex life, and sharply split kink fingerprints.
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 Big Kink Survey
Who's Into Sissification?
12% are into degradation-by-feminization — peaking at 38% of bi men. Its kink signature is gender-transformation, not BDSM, and the one trait that survives is autism.
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 Big Kink Survey
What Drives PMS?
Religion vs class vs temperament, head-to-head: neuroticism dwarfs all, the religiosity gradient survives controls, the class gradient collapses — and leaving the faith doesn't help.
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 Big Kink Survey
How Bad Is PMS?
91% of menstruating women report mood PMS, 17% severe. What predicts a worse case — mental health, upbringing, religion, country — and why the pill barely moves it.
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 Big Kink Survey
Behavior Across the Cycle
111,000 women, phase by phase: libido and attraction to masculinity both peak at ovulation — and the peak survives hormonal birth control.
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 Porn & Incentives
Does Porn Create Desire?
8,400 people on whether porn would make a man actually try 19 acts. "It would change HIM, not me" — and the gap grows with taboo (r=0.71). Folk belief runs opposite to the BKS data.
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 Big Kink Survey
Pornography Use
What a million kinky people reveal about porn — prevalence, onset, shame, healing, and effects on sex life.
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 Big Kink Survey
The Shame Map
Which desires feel wrong: shame tracks taboo content (non-consent, humiliation, incest) — not porn use, kinkiness, neuroticism, or religion.
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 Big Kink Survey
Are Fetishes Born or Made?
Innate or caused by experience? Five lines of evidence — timing, porn, trauma, sex differences, generations — with the obvious confounders controlled.
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 Big Kink Survey
Fetish Onset & Porn
When fetishes begin, why early ones run stronger, which kinks track porn use — and which fetishes predate porn entirely.
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 Sex Perspective
Porn & Predicting Desire
How men predict women's sexual tastes, how often they're wrong, and what porn use has to do with it.
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 Relationship Survey
Poly vs Mono, Revisited
The original poly writeup rerun on 50,528 people with real controls. Is it just trans/queer people? (No.) Why the slightly-mono middle does worst, how long poly relationships last, and what secondary partners look like.
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 Glosso
Are Rationalists More Poly?
1,086 glosso users: higher rationalist-quiz tiers are more okay with a partner sexting, falling in love, or more. Checked against the Bay Area, autism, politics, and a dozen other confounders.
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 Glosso
The Rat Spectrum
2,750 glosso users: what else changes as rationalist-quiz scores rise, adjusted for closeness to Aella. Fewer ghosts and conspiracies, more AI doom, better bets, less anxiety, greyer consent lines, plus a searchable list of all 438 differences.
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 Relationship Survey
Mono vs Poly
50,000 people across the monogamy–polyamory spectrum: flourishing, jealousy, sex, and cheating — and why the ambivalent middle does worst.
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 Relationship Survey
Relationships Over Time
From month 1 to year 33: passion's long slide, the sex-frequency clock, rising security, eroding transparency — and whether couples drift poly.
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 Relationships
Who Cheats?
Who cheats, who gets cheated on, and the traits and circumstances that predict it.
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 Childhood Survey
What Part of a Bad Childhood Does the Damage?
Seven childhood axes compete: sad-loner dominates everything, broken home collapses to zero — plus the 9% with hellish childhoods who are thriving anyway.
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 Childhood Survey
The Anatomy of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Perpetrator, severity, frequency, grooming vs coercion, who knew and how they reacted — which dimensions actually carry the adult damage, all entered together.
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 Childhood Survey
Does Spanking Hurt — Or Only Angry Spanking?
Angry vs calm spanking against the household around it: ~90% of the spanking penalty is the chaos, calm spanking collapses to zero — but angry hitting still adds harm.
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 Childhood Survey
Purity Culture: What Happens to the Kids?
The repression→kink theory mostly fails — and the worst-off group anywhere is high-purity kids who left the faith. Obedience-as-virtue best predicts being at war with yourself.
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 Childhood Survey
Who Admits It? The Perpetration Question
12% say they've had a sexual experience with someone who didn't want it. The abuse→abuser cycle tested directly — real, but smaller and stranger than the cliché.
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Explorers

interactive — poke at the data yourself
Flirt Quiz
Flirting Styles Explorer
136 ways people flirt, factor-analysed live in your browser. Pick how many factors to pull out, rotate them, split by men or women, and strip out the general tendency to agree with everything. Updates every 10 minutes as answers come in — take the quiz and watch your answers land.
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 Big Kink Survey
The Fetish Map
551 fetishes and turn-ons on one chart: how common each is × how strongly it skews male or female, on population-calibrated weights. Hover, pin, search, filter by category — from Vaginal Fingering (84%, equal) to Pedophilia (0.8%, 13× male).
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 Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
Cross-Cultural Explorer
186 pre-industrial societies × 1,757 ethnographic variables — gods, rituals, marriage, war, witchcraft. Cross-tab any pair, plot any variable on a world map, or rank everything by correlation. Data: Murdock & White 1969, via D-PLACE.
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 aella.lol Face Games
Face Explorer
327 faces, every measurement, every perceived trait, attractiveness by rater sex — plot any pair, browse the full correlation matrix, or rank the faces themselves.
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 Temptation Survey
Attraction by Perceived Age
For faces of each perceived age, the share who'd say yes — to a no-strings one-night stand vs a serious date. Two-arm A/B split, 95% CIs, age-smoothing, hover for the faces.
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 Big Kink Survey
The Fetish Political Compass
Every kink plotted by the average politics of its fans — two axes, m/f split, kinkiness-adjusted mode, and filters by fetish class. n≈1M.
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 Big Kink Survey
Kink Tree
An interactive map of kinks and fetishes, clustered by how they tend to co-occur.
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 Glosso
Attractiveness Correlates
What predicts being rated attractive — browse the correlates and their strengths.
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 Nude Survey
Nude Survey Explorer
How raters and nude photos scored, and how self-rating relates to willingness, taste, and promiscuity. Summary stats.
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 Nude Survey
Photos by Rating
Browse the photo set grouped into half-point bins by average attractiveness rating.
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Chaos Survey factor tools

factor analysis of the opinion survey
Factor Sweep Explorer
Watch how the factor structure shifts as you sweep the number of factors extracted.
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Opinion Averages
Average agreement on every opinion item, sortable and filterable.
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Factor Explorer
Browse the extracted factors and the items that load on each.
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Scale Explorer
Compare scales and see how they relate to one another.
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Detail Explorers
Drill into per-item detail views behind the factor structure.
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Other projects

standalone sites, sandboxes & tools
Big Kink Survey
Gender Guessr
Four quizzes, one per group. Did trans women answer more like cis men, cis women, or trans men? Same question for trans men, and for nonbinary people of each natal sex. Around three dozen survey questions each — childhood abuse, bondage, porn habits, the Big Five — with the real numbers, and where all six groups landed, revealed after every answer.
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 Sandbox
Monkey Evolution Sim
A colony of monkeys with ~50 interacting genes, evolving in real time. Set the world — food, predators, mating, kinship — and watch natural selection rewrite the gene pool. Start as a human, chimp, bonobo, orangutan, or gorilla.
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The Follower Exchange
Type your username and get today's exchange rates for your audience — what your Twitter following is worth in email subs, YouTube subs, TikTok subs, and more. Rates from resale markets, sponsor rate cards, and reach data.
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Big Kink Survey Explorer
The full interactive explorer behind the reports — cross-tabulate any two of hundreds of questions across the whole dataset.
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Name Bucket
A browsable bucket of ~18,000 first names — pick a vibe (classic, strange, upper-class…) and filter by popularity, era, gender, and style.
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Knockr
A directory of women looking for a donor to help them get pregnant, on their own terms.
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Egg Funnel
Predicts your likely egg-freezing results — feed in your numbers and it estimates how many eggs you might retrieve, based on patterns across a lot of real cycle data.
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Social

a quick list of common claims about me and my response
Social
Setting the Record Straight
Things people say about me that aren't true (or are true-ish with missing context), and what actually happened. Each claim has its own link.
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