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 8.84 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 216 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.84 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.38 |
| N | 216 |
| Standard error | 0.094 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 4 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 97.7 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 2026-08-28. The estimated change over that period is -0.388 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.174, 0.397].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.313 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.969, 1.342]. 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
-5.7776 -0.8504 0.2458 1.1469 1.3446
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 9.043713 0.226652 39.901 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003596 0.003689 -0.975 0.331
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.379 on 214 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.004421, Adjusted R-squared: -0.0002317
F-statistic: 0.9502 on 1 and 214 DF, p-value: 0.3308