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Ryerson Project Item 143

I trust AI to give me advice on my mental health.

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.58 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 809 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-07-01 to 2026-10-06.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean3.58
Median3.00
Standard deviation2.93
N809
Standard error0.103

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 203 Response 1: 56 Response 2: 65 Response 3: 90 Response 4: 62 Response 5: 104 Response 6: 78 Response 7: 69 Response 8: 43 Response 9: 15 Response 10: 24 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 203 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 122 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 12.3 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: 27.3% 2026-07 response 1: 7.1% 2026-07 response 2: 7.1% 2026-07 response 3: 12.2% 2026-07 response 4: 6.8% 2026-07 response 5: 13.2% 2026-07 response 6: 9.6% 2026-07 response 7: 8.4% 2026-07 response 8: 5.1% 2026-07 response 9: 1.3% 2026-07 response 10: 1.9% 2026-08 response 0: 25.0% 2026-08 response 1: 7.0% 2026-08 response 2: 9.2% 2026-08 response 3: 9.5% 2026-08 response 4: 8.9% 2026-08 response 5: 12.7% 2026-08 response 6: 7.0% 2026-08 response 7: 8.9% 2026-08 response 8: 5.4% 2026-08 response 9: 2.5% 2026-08 response 10: 4.1% 2026-09 response 0: 22.7% 2026-09 response 1: 7.1% 2026-09 response 2: 7.1% 2026-09 response 3: 9.9% 2026-09 response 4: 7.1% 2026-09 response 5: 12.8% 2026-09 response 6: 14.2% 2026-09 response 7: 7.8% 2026-09 response 8: 5.7% 2026-09 response 9: 2.1% 2026-09 response 10: 3.5% 2026-10 response 0: 17.1% 2026-10 response 1: 4.9% 2026-10 response 2: 9.8% 2026-10 response 3: 19.5% 2026-10 response 4: 7.3% 2026-10 response 5: 12.2% 2026-10 response 6: 14.6% 2026-10 response 7: 9.8% 2026-10 response 8: 4.9% 2026-10 response 9: 0.0% 2026-10 response 10: 0.0% 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 2026-07-01 to 2026-10-06. The estimated change over that period is 0.492 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.270, 1.255].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.854 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.018, 4.725]. 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 
-3.8547 -3.3726 -0.4132  2.3330  6.6172 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      3.362495   0.198252  16.961   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.005075   0.004005   1.267    0.205    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.926 on 807 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.001986,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.0007491 
F-statistic: 1.606 on 1 and 807 DF,  p-value: 0.2055