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Ryerson Project Item 100

I believe customer service has gotten worse over time.

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.96 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 183 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-14 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean6.96
Median7.00
Standard deviation2.35
N183
Standard error0.174

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 3 Response 1: 1 Response 2: 2 Response 3: 3 Response 4: 15 Response 5: 34 Response 6: 21 Response 7: 21 Response 8: 26 Response 9: 21 Response 10: 36 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 36 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 47 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 65.7 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 0.0% 2026-05 response 1: 0.0% 2026-05 response 2: 0.0% 2026-05 response 3: 4.8% 2026-05 response 4: 4.8% 2026-05 response 5: 23.8% 2026-05 response 6: 9.5% 2026-05 response 7: 9.5% 2026-05 response 8: 4.8% 2026-05 response 9: 9.5% 2026-05 response 10: 33.3% 2026-06 response 0: 2.1% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 2.1% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 6.4% 2026-06 response 5: 21.3% 2026-06 response 6: 17.0% 2026-06 response 7: 14.9% 2026-06 response 8: 17.0% 2026-06 response 9: 8.5% 2026-06 response 10: 10.6% 2026-07 response 0: 3.1% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 0.0% 2026-07 response 3: 3.1% 2026-07 response 4: 9.2% 2026-07 response 5: 18.5% 2026-07 response 6: 13.8% 2026-07 response 7: 9.2% 2026-07 response 8: 7.7% 2026-07 response 9: 15.4% 2026-07 response 10: 20.0% 2026-08 response 0: 0.0% 2026-08 response 1: 2.3% 2026-08 response 2: 2.3% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 11.4% 2026-08 response 5: 11.4% 2026-08 response 6: 4.5% 2026-08 response 7: 13.6% 2026-08 response 8: 20.5% 2026-08 response 9: 9.1% 2026-08 response 10: 25.0% 2026-09 response 0: 0.0% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 0.0% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 33.3% 2026-09 response 6: 0.0% 2026-09 response 7: 0.0% 2026-09 response 8: 50.0% 2026-09 response 9: 16.7% 2026-09 response 10: 0.0% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-14 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is 0.147 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.182, 1.477].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.456 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.658, 4.571]. 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 
-6.9626 -1.9357  0.0536  2.0386  3.1099 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      6.890132   0.370736  18.585   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.001250   0.005709   0.219    0.827    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.358 on 181 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0002646,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.005259 
F-statistic: 0.04791 on 1 and 181 DF,  p-value: 0.827