Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 2
I trust the federal government to act in the public interest.
American adults' average (mean) response was 3.17 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 996 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 3.17 |
|---|---|
| Median | 3.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.71 |
| N | 996 |
| Standard error | 0.086 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 123 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 9.0 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 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.078 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.774, 0.617].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.219 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.158, 1.721]. 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
-3.1946 -2.1925 -0.1733 1.8378 6.8725
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.1945690 0.1525765 20.937 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0005987 0.0027059 -0.221 0.825
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.71 on 994 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 4.925e-05, Adjusted R-squared: -0.0009567
F-statistic: 0.04895 on 1 and 994 DF, p-value: 0.8249