Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 15
I am confident that I can find reliable information when I need it.
American adults' average (mean) response was 7.48 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 841 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-19.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 7.48 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.85 |
| N | 841 |
| Standard error | 0.064 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 29 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 79.1 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 increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-19. The estimated change over that period is 0.545 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.101, 0.989].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.412 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.261, 2.563]. 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
-7.6090 -1.2610 0.3639 1.4065 2.7429
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.257134 0.113639 63.861 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.003867 0.001605 2.408 0.0162 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.844 on 839 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.006866, Adjusted R-squared: 0.005683
F-statistic: 5.801 on 1 and 839 DF, p-value: 0.01623