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Ryerson Project Item 137

I believe I can make a positive difference in my community.

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.55 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 128 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-06-30 to 2026-10-06.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean6.55
Median7.00
Standard deviation2.48
N128
Standard error0.220

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 4 Response 1: 2 Response 2: 3 Response 3: 9 Response 4: 4 Response 5: 18 Response 6: 12 Response 7: 23 Response 8: 28 Response 9: 10 Response 10: 15 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 28 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 65 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 53.6 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: 0.0% 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: 50.0% 2026-06 response 8: 0.0% 2026-06 response 9: 0.0% 2026-06 response 10: 0.0% 2026-07 response 0: 0.0% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 4.5% 2026-07 response 3: 0.0% 2026-07 response 4: 4.5% 2026-07 response 5: 9.1% 2026-07 response 6: 22.7% 2026-07 response 7: 18.2% 2026-07 response 8: 13.6% 2026-07 response 9: 9.1% 2026-07 response 10: 18.2% 2026-08 response 0: 2.5% 2026-08 response 1: 5.0% 2026-08 response 2: 2.5% 2026-08 response 3: 7.5% 2026-08 response 4: 0.0% 2026-08 response 5: 15.0% 2026-08 response 6: 7.5% 2026-08 response 7: 15.0% 2026-08 response 8: 20.0% 2026-08 response 9: 15.0% 2026-08 response 10: 10.0% 2026-09 response 0: 5.4% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 1.8% 2026-09 response 3: 8.9% 2026-09 response 4: 3.6% 2026-09 response 5: 12.5% 2026-09 response 6: 7.1% 2026-09 response 7: 19.6% 2026-09 response 8: 26.8% 2026-09 response 9: 3.6% 2026-09 response 10: 10.7% 2026-10 response 0: 0.0% 2026-10 response 1: 0.0% 2026-10 response 2: 0.0% 2026-10 response 3: 12.5% 2026-10 response 4: 12.5% 2026-10 response 5: 25.0% 2026-10 response 6: 0.0% 2026-10 response 7: 12.5% 2026-10 response 8: 25.0% 2026-10 response 9: 0.0% 2026-10 response 10: 12.5% Jun 2026 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 2026-06-30 to 2026-10-06. The estimated change over that period is -1.005 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.616, 0.607].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -3.744 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-9.749, 2.261]. 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 
-6.6779 -1.4524  0.5476  1.6501  3.8654 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.139178   0.527700  13.529   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.010251   0.008308  -1.234     0.22    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.479 on 126 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.01194,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.004096 
F-statistic: 1.522 on 1 and 126 DF,  p-value: 0.2196