Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 128
I believe people should read more books.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.42 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 177 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-29 to 2026-09-08.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.42 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.88 |
| N | 177 |
| Standard error | 0.141 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 10 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 93.3 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 2026-09-08. The estimated change over that period is 1.303 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.269, 2.337].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 6.703 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [1.385, 12.022]. 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
-6.7739 -1.0949 0.6849 1.6298 1.9785
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.984771 0.222822 35.835 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.018353 0.007378 2.487 0.0138 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.848 on 175 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.03415, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02863
F-statistic: 6.187 on 1 and 175 DF, p-value: 0.0138