Ryerson Project Item 146 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.14 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 259 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-07-21 to 2026-10-28.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	3.14
Median	3.00
Standard deviation	2.71
N	259
Standard error	0.169

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 131 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 7.8 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 2026-07-21 to 2026-10-28. The estimated change over that period is 0.778 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.426, 1.981].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 2.869 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.572, 7.310]. 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 
-3.4901 -2.8539 -0.2231  2.0597  7.0283 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      2.775381   0.331809   8.364 3.88e-15 ***
days_since_start 0.007854   0.006174   1.272    0.205    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.711 on 257 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.006256,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.00239 
F-statistic: 1.618 on 1 and 257 DF,  p-value: 0.2045