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Ryerson Project Item 133

I would be very interested in reading blog posts about the results of surveys like this one.

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.19 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 481 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean6.19
Median6.00
Standard deviation2.84
N481
Standard error0.130

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 38 Response 1: 10 Response 2: 18 Response 3: 15 Response 4: 9 Response 5: 78 Response 6: 75 Response 7: 64 Response 8: 72 Response 9: 34 Response 10: 68 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 78 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 70 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 48.5 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-06 response 0: 50.0% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 0.0% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 0.0% 2026-06 response 5: 50.0% 2026-06 response 6: 0.0% 2026-06 response 7: 0.0% 2026-06 response 8: 0.0% 2026-06 response 9: 0.0% 2026-06 response 10: 0.0% 2026-07 response 0: 8.3% 2026-07 response 1: 1.4% 2026-07 response 2: 2.5% 2026-07 response 3: 3.6% 2026-07 response 4: 1.8% 2026-07 response 5: 18.3% 2026-07 response 6: 14.7% 2026-07 response 7: 14.7% 2026-07 response 8: 13.3% 2026-07 response 9: 8.3% 2026-07 response 10: 12.9% 2026-08 response 0: 6.7% 2026-08 response 1: 3.1% 2026-08 response 2: 6.1% 2026-08 response 3: 2.5% 2026-08 response 4: 2.5% 2026-08 response 5: 14.1% 2026-08 response 6: 16.0% 2026-08 response 7: 12.3% 2026-08 response 8: 16.6% 2026-08 response 9: 6.1% 2026-08 response 10: 14.1% 2026-09 response 0: 7.9% 2026-09 response 1: 2.6% 2026-09 response 2: 2.6% 2026-09 response 3: 2.6% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 7.9% 2026-09 response 6: 21.1% 2026-09 response 7: 7.9% 2026-09 response 8: 21.1% 2026-09 response 9: 2.6% 2026-09 response 10: 23.7% Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is 0.563 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.354, 1.479].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 2.894 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.821, 7.609]. 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 
-6.5090 -1.1683  0.0298  1.9506  4.0298 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      5.946414   0.239426  24.836   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.007924   0.006570   1.206    0.228    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.843 on 479 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.003028,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.0009462 
F-statistic: 1.455 on 1 and 479 DF,  p-value: 0.2284