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Ryerson Project Item 112

I believe workplace diversity programs are beneficial.

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.50 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 264 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-10-08.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean6.50
Median8.00
Standard deviation3.39
N264
Standard error0.209

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 34 Response 1: 2 Response 2: 14 Response 3: 7 Response 4: 7 Response 5: 22 Response 6: 13 Response 7: 26 Response 8: 44 Response 9: 34 Response 10: 61 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 61 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 67 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 52.2 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: 3.4% 2026-05 response 1: 0.0% 2026-05 response 2: 3.4% 2026-05 response 3: 3.4% 2026-05 response 4: 0.0% 2026-05 response 5: 13.8% 2026-05 response 6: 6.9% 2026-05 response 7: 13.8% 2026-05 response 8: 20.7% 2026-05 response 9: 13.8% 2026-05 response 10: 20.7% 2026-06 response 0: 8.9% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 2.2% 2026-06 response 3: 4.4% 2026-06 response 4: 6.7% 2026-06 response 5: 4.4% 2026-06 response 6: 8.9% 2026-06 response 7: 17.8% 2026-06 response 8: 17.8% 2026-06 response 9: 13.3% 2026-06 response 10: 15.6% 2026-07 response 0: 16.8% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 7.4% 2026-07 response 3: 3.2% 2026-07 response 4: 0.0% 2026-07 response 5: 6.3% 2026-07 response 6: 4.2% 2026-07 response 7: 8.4% 2026-07 response 8: 14.7% 2026-07 response 9: 11.6% 2026-07 response 10: 27.4% 2026-08 response 0: 13.0% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 6.5% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 4.3% 2026-08 response 5: 10.9% 2026-08 response 6: 4.3% 2026-08 response 7: 4.3% 2026-08 response 8: 17.4% 2026-08 response 9: 17.4% 2026-08 response 10: 21.7% 2026-09 response 0: 14.3% 2026-09 response 1: 4.8% 2026-09 response 2: 4.8% 2026-09 response 3: 2.4% 2026-09 response 4: 4.8% 2026-09 response 5: 7.1% 2026-09 response 6: 2.4% 2026-09 response 7: 9.5% 2026-09 response 8: 16.7% 2026-09 response 9: 7.1% 2026-09 response 10: 26.2% 2026-10 response 0: 14.3% 2026-10 response 1: 0.0% 2026-10 response 2: 0.0% 2026-10 response 3: 0.0% 2026-10 response 4: 0.0% 2026-10 response 5: 28.6% 2026-10 response 6: 0.0% 2026-10 response 7: 0.0% 2026-10 response 8: 14.3% 2026-10 response 9: 28.6% 2026-10 response 10: 14.3% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-12 to 2026-10-08. The estimated change over that period is -1.029 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.565, 0.507].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.522 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-6.287, 1.244]. 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 
-6.884 -1.922  1.174  2.806  4.041 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       6.980993   0.417686  16.714   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006904   0.005235  -1.319    0.188    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.388 on 262 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.006593,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.002801 
F-statistic: 1.739 on 1 and 262 DF,  p-value: 0.1885