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Ryerson Project Item 124

I believe international trade is good for the United States.

American adults' average (mean) response was 8.21 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 146 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-27.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean8.21
Median9.00
Standard deviation1.94
N146
Standard error0.161

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 0 Response 1: 0 Response 2: 2 Response 3: 1 Response 4: 3 Response 5: 10 Response 6: 11 Response 7: 22 Response 8: 22 Response 9: 16 Response 10: 59 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 59 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 13 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 91.5 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 2026-06 response 0: 0.0% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 0.0% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 0.0% 2026-06 response 5: 0.0% 2026-06 response 6: 0.0% 2026-06 response 7: 100.0% 2026-06 response 8: 0.0% 2026-06 response 9: 0.0% 2026-06 response 10: 0.0% 2026-07 response 0: 0.0% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 0.0% 2026-07 response 3: 0.0% 2026-07 response 4: 0.0% 2026-07 response 5: 7.9% 2026-07 response 6: 5.3% 2026-07 response 7: 21.1% 2026-07 response 8: 18.4% 2026-07 response 9: 7.9% 2026-07 response 10: 39.5% 2026-08 response 0: 0.0% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 0.0% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 0.0% 2026-08 response 5: 11.9% 2026-08 response 6: 9.5% 2026-08 response 7: 14.3% 2026-08 response 8: 4.8% 2026-08 response 9: 11.9% 2026-08 response 10: 47.6% 2026-09 response 0: 0.0% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 3.7% 2026-09 response 4: 3.7% 2026-09 response 5: 3.7% 2026-09 response 6: 3.7% 2026-09 response 7: 3.7% 2026-09 response 8: 25.9% 2026-09 response 9: 11.1% 2026-09 response 10: 44.4% 2026-10 response 0: 0.0% 2026-10 response 1: 0.0% 2026-10 response 2: 5.4% 2026-10 response 3: 0.0% 2026-10 response 4: 5.4% 2026-10 response 5: 2.7% 2026-10 response 6: 10.8% 2026-10 response 7: 13.5% 2026-10 response 8: 16.2% 2026-10 response 9: 13.5% 2026-10 response 10: 32.4% 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 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-27. The estimated change over that period is -0.446 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.540, 0.647].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.359 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.687, 1.970]. 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 
-6.0445 -1.3123  0.6505  1.7333  1.9927 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       8.435020   0.319484  26.402   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003720   0.004611  -0.807    0.421    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.944 on 144 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.004499,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.002414 
F-statistic: 0.6508 on 1 and 144 DF,  p-value: 0.4211