Ryerson Project Item 21 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.22 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 488 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-16.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	5.22
Median	6.00
Standard deviation	2.91
N	488
Standard error	0.132

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 86 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 36.6 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 2026-09-16. The estimated change over that period is -0.667 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.636, 0.302].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.766 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.330, 0.799]. 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 
-5.4831 -2.1955  0.5121  2.1320  5.0921 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.516903   0.255099  21.626   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.004834   0.003573  -1.353    0.177    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.909 on 486 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.003752,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.001702 
F-statistic:  1.83 on 1 and 486 DF,  p-value: 0.1767