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Ryerson Project Item 136

I believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our society.

American adults' average (mean) response was 1.04 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 199 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-07-05 to 2026-10-28.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean1.04
Median0.00
Standard deviation2.28
N199
Standard error0.162

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 152 Response 1: 7 Response 2: 10 Response 3: 4 Response 4: 1 Response 5: 12 Response 6: 3 Response 7: 3 Response 8: 3 Response 9: 0 Response 10: 4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 152 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 141 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 0.7 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 2026-07 response 0: 70.3% 2026-07 response 1: 3.1% 2026-07 response 2: 9.4% 2026-07 response 3: 4.7% 2026-07 response 4: 1.6% 2026-07 response 5: 7.8% 2026-07 response 6: 1.6% 2026-07 response 7: 0.0% 2026-07 response 8: 1.6% 2026-07 response 9: 0.0% 2026-07 response 10: 0.0% 2026-08 response 0: 89.6% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 2.1% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 0.0% 2026-08 response 5: 8.3% 2026-08 response 6: 0.0% 2026-08 response 7: 0.0% 2026-08 response 8: 0.0% 2026-08 response 9: 0.0% 2026-08 response 10: 0.0% 2026-09 response 0: 76.5% 2026-09 response 1: 5.9% 2026-09 response 2: 2.0% 2026-09 response 3: 2.0% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 2.0% 2026-09 response 6: 0.0% 2026-09 response 7: 3.9% 2026-09 response 8: 2.0% 2026-09 response 9: 0.0% 2026-09 response 10: 5.9% 2026-10 response 0: 69.4% 2026-10 response 1: 5.6% 2026-10 response 2: 5.6% 2026-10 response 3: 0.0% 2026-10 response 4: 0.0% 2026-10 response 5: 5.6% 2026-10 response 6: 5.6% 2026-10 response 7: 2.8% 2026-10 response 8: 2.8% 2026-10 response 9: 0.0% 2026-10 response 10: 2.8% Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-07-05 to 2026-10-28. The estimated change over that period is 0.611 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.447, 1.669].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.940 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.421, 5.302]. 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 
-1.3724 -1.1466 -0.9209 -0.7695  8.8932 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)      0.761518   0.289775   2.628  0.00927 **
days_since_start 0.005312   0.004667   1.138  0.25638   
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.282 on 197 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.006534,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.001491 
F-statistic: 1.296 on 1 and 197 DF,  p-value: 0.2564