Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 126
I believe space exploration is worth public investment.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.34 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 168 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-05.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.34 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.83 |
| N | 168 |
| Standard error | 0.218 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 71 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 49.3 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 increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-05. The estimated change over that period is 1.477 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.018, 2.935].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 5.503 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.068, 10.939]. 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
-6.9192 -1.5740 0.4575 2.0719 4.3465
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.623405 0.418345 13.442 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.015067 0.007537 1.999 0.0472 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.803 on 166 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.02351, Adjusted R-squared: 0.01762
F-statistic: 3.996 on 1 and 166 DF, p-value: 0.04724