Ryerson Project Item 129 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 8.46 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 137 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-29.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	8.46
Median	9.00
Standard deviation	1.93
N	137
Standard error	0.165

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 9 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 94.3 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 unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-06-29 to 2026-10-29. The estimated change over that period is -0.093 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.097, 0.911].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.278 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.283, 2.727]. 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 
-7.4292 -0.4887  0.5258  1.5289  1.5837 

Coefficients:
                   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       8.5092273  0.3163967  26.894   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0007621  0.0041601  -0.183    0.855    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.94 on 135 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0002485,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.007157 
F-statistic: 0.03356 on 1 and 135 DF,  p-value: 0.8549