Ryerson Project Item 133 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.96 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 632 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-30 to 2026-10-07.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	5.96
Median	6.00
Standard deviation	2.94
N	632
Standard error	0.117

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 79 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 43.5 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 2026-10-07. The estimated change over that period is -0.918 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.704, -0.132].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -3.385 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-6.285, -0.486]. 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 
-6.3595 -1.2297  0.2939  2.1595  4.5488 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       6.359508   0.210612  30.195   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.009269   0.004043  -2.293   0.0222 *  
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.93 on 630 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.008275,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.006701 
F-statistic: 5.257 on 1 and 630 DF,  p-value: 0.02219