Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 23
I believe social media does more harm than good.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.73 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 652 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.73 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.52 |
| N | 652 |
| Standard error | 0.099 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 58 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 59.6 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 increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-28. The estimated change over that period is 1.034 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.338, 1.730].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 2.099 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.687, 3.510]. 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
-7.061 -1.716 0.347 2.063 3.749
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.250821 0.191785 32.593 < 2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.005746 0.001968 2.919 0.00363 **
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.509 on 650 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01294, Adjusted R-squared: 0.01142
F-statistic: 8.52 on 1 and 650 DF, p-value: 0.003634