Ryerson Project Item 107 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.31 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 227 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-10-07.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	7.31
Median	8.00
Standard deviation	2.32
N	227
Standard error	0.154

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 37 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 73.9 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 2026-10-07. The estimated change over that period is -0.048 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.093, 0.998].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.118 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.698, 2.463]. 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 
-7.306 -1.321  0.668  2.180  2.712 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.335916   0.299602   24.49   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.000323   0.003585   -0.09    0.928    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.324 on 225 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  3.607e-05,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.004408 
F-statistic: 0.008117 on 1 and 225 DF,  p-value: 0.9283