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Ryerson Project Item 16

I see myself as extraverted.

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.72 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 889 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean3.72
Median3.00
Standard deviation2.94
N889
Standard error0.099

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 194 Response 1: 60 Response 2: 88 Response 3: 104 Response 4: 76 Response 5: 114 Response 6: 80 Response 7: 68 Response 8: 47 Response 9: 23 Response 10: 35 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 194 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 119 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 14.5 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 2026-05 response 0: 16.5% 2026-05 response 1: 5.9% 2026-05 response 2: 12.3% 2026-05 response 3: 14.4% 2026-05 response 4: 8.5% 2026-05 response 5: 11.9% 2026-05 response 6: 7.2% 2026-05 response 7: 8.5% 2026-05 response 8: 6.8% 2026-05 response 9: 4.7% 2026-05 response 10: 3.4% 2026-06 response 0: 22.2% 2026-06 response 1: 7.4% 2026-06 response 2: 10.4% 2026-06 response 3: 11.5% 2026-06 response 4: 9.3% 2026-06 response 5: 14.4% 2026-06 response 6: 10.0% 2026-06 response 7: 5.9% 2026-06 response 8: 3.7% 2026-06 response 9: 1.1% 2026-06 response 10: 4.1% 2026-07 response 0: 20.3% 2026-07 response 1: 8.3% 2026-07 response 2: 6.0% 2026-07 response 3: 10.5% 2026-07 response 4: 8.3% 2026-07 response 5: 12.8% 2026-07 response 6: 12.8% 2026-07 response 7: 10.5% 2026-07 response 8: 4.5% 2026-07 response 9: 4.5% 2026-07 response 10: 1.5% 2026-08 response 0: 26.2% 2026-08 response 1: 6.8% 2026-08 response 2: 5.8% 2026-08 response 3: 14.6% 2026-08 response 4: 8.7% 2026-08 response 5: 9.7% 2026-08 response 6: 7.8% 2026-08 response 7: 6.8% 2026-08 response 8: 4.9% 2026-08 response 9: 1.9% 2026-08 response 10: 6.8% 2026-09 response 0: 26.9% 2026-09 response 1: 5.0% 2026-09 response 2: 10.9% 2026-09 response 3: 7.6% 2026-09 response 4: 7.6% 2026-09 response 5: 14.3% 2026-09 response 6: 8.4% 2026-09 response 7: 6.7% 2026-09 response 8: 5.9% 2026-09 response 9: 0.8% 2026-09 response 10: 5.9% 2026-10 response 0: 32.1% 2026-10 response 1: 7.1% 2026-10 response 2: 14.3% 2026-10 response 3: 3.6% 2026-10 response 4: 7.1% 2026-10 response 5: 10.7% 2026-10 response 6: 3.6% 2026-10 response 7: 10.7% 2026-10 response 8: 10.7% 2026-10 response 9: 0.0% 2026-10 response 10: 0.0% May 2026 Jun 2026 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 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06. The estimated change over that period is -0.339 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.019, 0.341].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.783 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.355, 0.789]. 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 
-3.865 -2.755 -0.541  2.230  6.457 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       3.864762   0.174111  22.197   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002144   0.002193  -0.978    0.328    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.938 on 887 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.001077,	Adjusted R-squared:  -4.949e-05 
F-statistic: 0.9561 on 1 and 887 DF,  p-value: 0.3284