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Ryerson Project Item 12

I believe people with different political views can still work together productively.

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.26 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 643 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-27.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean7.26
Median8.00
Standard deviation2.30
N643
Standard error0.091

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 9 Response 1: 3 Response 2: 13 Response 3: 26 Response 4: 29 Response 5: 51 Response 6: 66 Response 7: 121 Response 8: 109 Response 9: 87 Response 10: 129 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 129 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 39 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 72.5 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: 0.8% 2026-05 response 1: 0.4% 2026-05 response 2: 0.8% 2026-05 response 3: 3.3% 2026-05 response 4: 6.6% 2026-05 response 5: 11.1% 2026-05 response 6: 9.9% 2026-05 response 7: 18.5% 2026-05 response 8: 17.3% 2026-05 response 9: 11.1% 2026-05 response 10: 20.2% 2026-06 response 0: 1.5% 2026-06 response 1: 0.7% 2026-06 response 2: 3.7% 2026-06 response 3: 5.1% 2026-06 response 4: 3.7% 2026-06 response 5: 6.2% 2026-06 response 6: 10.7% 2026-06 response 7: 15.8% 2026-06 response 8: 16.5% 2026-06 response 9: 17.6% 2026-06 response 10: 18.4% 2026-07 response 0: 6.0% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 2.0% 2026-07 response 3: 2.0% 2026-07 response 4: 4.0% 2026-07 response 5: 4.0% 2026-07 response 6: 12.0% 2026-07 response 7: 32.0% 2026-07 response 8: 16.0% 2026-07 response 9: 10.0% 2026-07 response 10: 12.0% 2026-08 response 0: 0.0% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 0.0% 2026-08 response 3: 4.5% 2026-08 response 4: 2.3% 2026-08 response 5: 4.5% 2026-08 response 6: 11.4% 2026-08 response 7: 18.2% 2026-08 response 8: 18.2% 2026-08 response 9: 11.4% 2026-08 response 10: 29.5% 2026-09 response 0: 0.0% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 2.9% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 8.8% 2026-09 response 6: 5.9% 2026-09 response 7: 26.5% 2026-09 response 8: 17.6% 2026-09 response 9: 5.9% 2026-09 response 10: 32.4% 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 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-27. The estimated change over that period is 0.620 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.160, 1.400].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.520 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.391, 3.431]. 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 
-7.4433 -1.2436  0.3943  1.7835  2.9354 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      7.064617   0.152711  46.261   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.004162   0.002665   1.562    0.119    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.298 on 641 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.003791,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.002237 
F-statistic: 2.439 on 1 and 641 DF,  p-value: 0.1188