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Ryerson Project Item 14

I see myself as a person who is fully prepared to take risks.

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.07 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,074 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean5.07
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.58
N1,074
Standard error0.079

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 54 Response 1: 56 Response 2: 96 Response 3: 109 Response 4: 89 Response 5: 165 Response 6: 172 Response 7: 152 Response 8: 88 Response 9: 43 Response 10: 50 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 172 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 92 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 32.1 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 2026-05 response 0: 5.8% 2026-05 response 1: 4.6% 2026-05 response 2: 10.4% 2026-05 response 3: 9.6% 2026-05 response 4: 8.8% 2026-05 response 5: 12.5% 2026-05 response 6: 17.5% 2026-05 response 7: 14.2% 2026-05 response 8: 10.0% 2026-05 response 9: 1.7% 2026-05 response 10: 5.0% 2026-06 response 0: 3.3% 2026-06 response 1: 5.9% 2026-06 response 2: 5.5% 2026-06 response 3: 10.0% 2026-06 response 4: 7.7% 2026-06 response 5: 22.1% 2026-06 response 6: 15.5% 2026-06 response 7: 13.7% 2026-06 response 8: 6.3% 2026-06 response 9: 5.5% 2026-06 response 10: 4.4% 2026-07 response 0: 3.5% 2026-07 response 1: 2.3% 2026-07 response 2: 8.8% 2026-07 response 3: 14.6% 2026-07 response 4: 7.6% 2026-07 response 5: 12.3% 2026-07 response 6: 17.5% 2026-07 response 7: 15.8% 2026-07 response 8: 9.9% 2026-07 response 9: 4.1% 2026-07 response 10: 3.5% 2026-08 response 0: 7.0% 2026-08 response 1: 5.0% 2026-08 response 2: 11.7% 2026-08 response 3: 8.0% 2026-08 response 4: 9.7% 2026-08 response 5: 13.0% 2026-08 response 6: 14.0% 2026-08 response 7: 14.7% 2026-08 response 8: 7.0% 2026-08 response 9: 4.7% 2026-08 response 10: 5.0% 2026-09 response 0: 4.3% 2026-09 response 1: 10.8% 2026-09 response 2: 6.5% 2026-09 response 3: 10.8% 2026-09 response 4: 5.4% 2026-09 response 5: 16.1% 2026-09 response 6: 17.2% 2026-09 response 7: 10.8% 2026-09 response 8: 9.7% 2026-09 response 9: 3.2% 2026-09 response 10: 5.4% May 2026 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 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is -0.175 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.718, 0.369].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.456 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.873, 0.961]. 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 
-5.1524 -2.0597 -0.0214  1.9138  5.0198 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.153622   0.156930  32.840   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001248   0.001977  -0.631    0.528    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.58 on 1072 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0003712,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0005613 
F-statistic: 0.3981 on 1 and 1072 DF,  p-value: 0.5282