Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 127
I believe science fiction helps people imagine better futures.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.65 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 146 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-19.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.65 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.49 |
| N | 146 |
| Standard error | 0.206 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 57 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 58.2 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 2026-09-19. The estimated change over that period is -1.697 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-3.169, -0.226].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -7.654 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-14.289, -1.019]. 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
-6.4595 -1.6804 0.0376 1.8699 4.3368
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.21390 0.31983 22.56 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.02096 0.00919 -2.28 0.0241 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.455 on 144 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.03485, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02815
F-statistic: 5.199 on 1 and 144 DF, p-value: 0.02407