Ryerson Project Item 26 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.42 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 623 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	7.42
Median	8.00
Standard deviation	2.64
N	623
Standard error	0.106

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 32 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 76.9 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 0.550 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.289, 1.390].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.535 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.805, 3.874]. 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 
-7.6078 -1.3326  0.5519  2.3901  2.8418 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      7.158183   0.231604  30.907   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.004202   0.003262   1.288    0.198    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.635 on 621 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.002666,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.00106 
F-statistic:  1.66 on 1 and 621 DF,  p-value: 0.1981