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Ryerson Project Item 100

I believe customer service has gotten worse over time.

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.02 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 198 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-14 to 2026-09-18.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean7.02
Median7.00
Standard deviation2.33
N198
Standard error0.165

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 3 Response 1: 1 Response 2: 2 Response 3: 3 Response 4: 16 Response 5: 35 Response 6: 23 Response 7: 23 Response 8: 30 Response 9: 22 Response 10: 40 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 40 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 43 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 68.7 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: 4.8% 2026-09 response 5: 14.3% 2026-09 response 6: 9.5% 2026-09 response 7: 9.5% 2026-09 response 8: 33.3% 2026-09 response 9: 9.5% 2026-09 response 10: 19.0% 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 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is 0.513 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.700, 1.725].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.474 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.012, 4.960]. 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 
-7.003 -1.903  0.084  2.003  3.231 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      6.768694   0.344012  19.676   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.004036   0.004840   0.834    0.405    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.328 on 196 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.003535,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.001549 
F-statistic: 0.6953 on 1 and 196 DF,  p-value: 0.4054