Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 22
I worry that artificial intelligence will make society less fair.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.12 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 363 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-06.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.12 |
|---|---|
| Median | 6.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.76 |
| N | 363 |
| Standard error | 0.145 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 66 out of 123 qualifying items and is at the 46.7 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 2026-08-06. The estimated change over that period is -1.457 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.560, -0.353].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -5.485 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-9.640, -1.330]. 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
-6.5615 -1.5208 0.3635 2.0092 4.7000
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.756690 0.282859 23.887 < 2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.015018 0.005785 -2.596 0.00981 **
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.735 on 361 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01833, Adjusted R-squared: 0.01561
F-statistic: 6.74 on 1 and 361 DF, p-value: 0.009813