Ryerson Project Item 143 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.62 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 877 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-07-01 to 2026-10-27.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	3.62
Median	3.00
Standard deviation	2.90
N	877
Standard error	0.098

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 124 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 12.8 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-07-01 to 2026-10-27. The estimated change over that period is 0.684 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.060, 1.428].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 2.117 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.187, 4.420]. 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 
-4.0244 -2.9027 -0.3463  2.2654  6.6363 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      3.340530   0.181303  18.425   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.005795   0.003213   1.804   0.0716 .  
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.9 on 875 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.003704,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.002566 
F-statistic: 3.253 on 1 and 875 DF,  p-value: 0.07162