Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 103
I believe it is harder to build a middle-class life than it used to be.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.78 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 325 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-10-27.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.78 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.54 |
| N | 325 |
| Standard error | 0.086 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 4 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 97.9 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 2026-05-12 to 2026-10-27. The estimated change over that period is -0.409 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.012, 0.193].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.890 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.200, 0.421]. 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
-6.6996 -0.8580 0.3466 1.1737 1.4173
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.991929 0.177166 50.754 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002436 0.001823 -1.336 0.183
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.541 on 323 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.005494, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002415
F-statistic: 1.785 on 1 and 323 DF, p-value: 0.1825