Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 10
I trust journalists to report important events accurately.
American adults' average (mean) response was 4.62 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 596 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 4.62 |
|---|---|
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.64 |
| N | 596 |
| Standard error | 0.108 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 103 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 23.3 percentile.
Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.
Monthly Trend
Observed Trend
Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-28. The estimated change over that period is -0.225 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.156, 0.706].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.690 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.547, 2.166]. This short-window annualized number is provided for reference, but the observed-period change above is the primary trend estimate.
Call:
lm(formula = response_value ~ days_since_start, data = model_data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-4.6925 -1.6830 0.3444 2.3113 5.5306
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 4.694359 0.191909 24.461 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001890 0.003982 -0.475 0.635
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.642 on 594 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0003792, Adjusted R-squared: -0.001304
F-statistic: 0.2254 on 1 and 594 DF, p-value: 0.6352