Ryerson Project Item 21 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.15 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 539 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	5.15
Median	5.00
Standard deviation	2.89
N	539
Standard error	0.125

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 92 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 34.1 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 decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06. The estimated change over that period is -0.950 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.831, -0.068].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.195 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.233, -0.157]. 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 
-5.5280 -2.1404  0.3313  2.1270  5.3373 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.570103   0.233344  23.871   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006010   0.002841  -2.115   0.0349 *  
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.881 on 537 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.008263,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.006416 
F-statistic: 4.474 on 1 and 537 DF,  p-value: 0.03487