Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 127
I believe science fiction helps people imagine better futures.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.40 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 214 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-30 to 2026-10-31.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.40 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.45 |
| N | 214 |
| Standard error | 0.168 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 69 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 51.8 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 decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-06-30 to 2026-10-31. The estimated change over that period is -1.448 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.441, -0.456].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -4.301 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-7.247, -1.355]. 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
-6.5728 -1.3697 0.1446 1.8128 4.4163
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.996746 0.265694 26.334 < 2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.011775 0.004092 -2.877 0.00442 **
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.412 on 212 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.03759, Adjusted R-squared: 0.03305
F-statistic: 8.28 on 1 and 212 DF, p-value: 0.004419