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Ryerson Project Item 146

I trust AI to provide mental health support.

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.05 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 137 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-07-21 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean3.05
Median3.00
Standard deviation2.78
N137
Standard error0.237

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 40 Response 1: 13 Response 2: 14 Response 3: 13 Response 4: 10 Response 5: 16 Response 6: 14 Response 7: 8 Response 8: 5 Response 9: 2 Response 10: 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 40 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 124 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 8.2 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: 29.4% 2026-07 response 1: 8.8% 2026-07 response 2: 8.8% 2026-07 response 3: 14.7% 2026-07 response 4: 8.8% 2026-07 response 5: 8.8% 2026-07 response 6: 17.6% 2026-07 response 7: 2.9% 2026-07 response 8: 0.0% 2026-07 response 9: 0.0% 2026-07 response 10: 0.0% 2026-08 response 0: 27.9% 2026-08 response 1: 8.1% 2026-08 response 2: 12.8% 2026-08 response 3: 9.3% 2026-08 response 4: 5.8% 2026-08 response 5: 14.0% 2026-08 response 6: 8.1% 2026-08 response 7: 4.7% 2026-08 response 8: 4.7% 2026-08 response 9: 2.3% 2026-08 response 10: 2.3% 2026-09 response 0: 35.3% 2026-09 response 1: 17.6% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 0.0% 2026-09 response 4: 11.8% 2026-09 response 5: 5.9% 2026-09 response 6: 5.9% 2026-09 response 7: 17.6% 2026-09 response 8: 5.9% 2026-09 response 9: 0.0% 2026-09 response 10: 0.0% Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-07-21 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is 1.017 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.578, 2.613].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 7.431 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.223, 19.085]. 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 
-3.5802 -2.6850 -0.2343  2.0708  6.9284 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       2.56298    0.45373   5.649 9.19e-08 ***
days_since_start  0.02034    0.01613   1.261    0.209    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.771 on 135 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.01164,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.00432 
F-statistic:  1.59 on 1 and 135 DF,  p-value: 0.2095