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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 4.96 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,344 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-29.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean4.96
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.60
N1,344
Standard error0.071

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 74 Response 1: 78 Response 2: 120 Response 3: 148 Response 4: 115 Response 5: 195 Response 6: 215 Response 7: 182 Response 8: 105 Response 9: 53 Response 10: 59 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 215 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 103 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 27.7 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 2026-05 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: 5.3% 2026-09 response 1: 11.1% 2026-09 response 2: 6.4% 2026-09 response 3: 13.5% 2026-09 response 4: 5.8% 2026-09 response 5: 14.0% 2026-09 response 6: 15.8% 2026-09 response 7: 10.5% 2026-09 response 8: 8.2% 2026-09 response 9: 4.7% 2026-09 response 10: 4.7% 2026-10 response 0: 7.8% 2026-10 response 1: 6.8% 2026-10 response 2: 9.9% 2026-10 response 3: 13.5% 2026-10 response 4: 10.9% 2026-10 response 5: 10.9% 2026-10 response 6: 16.7% 2026-10 response 7: 11.5% 2026-10 response 8: 6.2% 2026-10 response 9: 2.6% 2026-10 response 10: 3.1% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-29. The estimated change over that period is -0.612 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.098, -0.127].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.236 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.215, -0.256]. 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 
-5.2534 -1.9971  0.1103  1.9234  5.3454 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.256759   0.138826  37.866   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003383   0.001367  -2.475   0.0135 *  
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.597 on 1342 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.004543,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.003801 
F-statistic: 6.124 on 1 and 1342 DF,  p-value: 0.01346