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Ryerson Project Item 26

I feel that I have people I can rely on when I need help.

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.40 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 837 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-30.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean7.40
Median8.00
Standard deviation2.65
N837
Standard error0.092

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 18 Response 1: 25 Response 2: 26 Response 3: 22 Response 4: 24 Response 5: 61 Response 6: 64 Response 7: 88 Response 8: 168 Response 9: 107 Response 10: 234 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 234 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 33 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 77.3 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 1.6% 2026-05 response 1: 2.3% 2026-05 response 2: 1.6% 2026-05 response 3: 4.7% 2026-05 response 4: 2.3% 2026-05 response 5: 7.0% 2026-05 response 6: 10.9% 2026-05 response 7: 12.4% 2026-05 response 8: 17.1% 2026-05 response 9: 11.6% 2026-05 response 10: 28.7% 2026-06 response 0: 2.5% 2026-06 response 1: 5.0% 2026-06 response 2: 4.2% 2026-06 response 3: 2.5% 2026-06 response 4: 0.8% 2026-06 response 5: 7.5% 2026-06 response 6: 8.3% 2026-06 response 7: 10.8% 2026-06 response 8: 21.7% 2026-06 response 9: 12.5% 2026-06 response 10: 24.2% 2026-07 response 0: 2.7% 2026-07 response 1: 3.5% 2026-07 response 2: 1.9% 2026-07 response 3: 2.7% 2026-07 response 4: 3.5% 2026-07 response 5: 3.9% 2026-07 response 6: 6.9% 2026-07 response 7: 9.7% 2026-07 response 8: 25.1% 2026-07 response 9: 14.7% 2026-07 response 10: 25.5% 2026-08 response 0: 1.0% 2026-08 response 1: 3.0% 2026-08 response 2: 3.0% 2026-08 response 3: 1.0% 2026-08 response 4: 3.0% 2026-08 response 5: 12.1% 2026-08 response 6: 8.1% 2026-08 response 7: 10.1% 2026-08 response 8: 16.2% 2026-08 response 9: 8.1% 2026-08 response 10: 34.3% 2026-09 response 0: 2.4% 2026-09 response 1: 3.6% 2026-09 response 2: 4.8% 2026-09 response 3: 2.4% 2026-09 response 4: 4.8% 2026-09 response 5: 9.6% 2026-09 response 6: 4.8% 2026-09 response 7: 7.2% 2026-09 response 8: 14.5% 2026-09 response 9: 9.6% 2026-09 response 10: 36.1% 2026-10 response 0: 2.0% 2026-10 response 1: 0.7% 2026-10 response 2: 4.8% 2026-10 response 3: 2.0% 2026-10 response 4: 2.7% 2026-10 response 5: 8.8% 2026-10 response 6: 6.8% 2026-10 response 7: 12.2% 2026-10 response 8: 18.4% 2026-10 response 9: 15.6% 2026-10 response 10: 25.9% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-30. The estimated change over that period is 0.139 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.496, 0.774].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.279 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.995, 1.554]. 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 
-7.4684 -1.3835  0.6142  2.5423  2.6709 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      7.3291376  0.1816892   40.34   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.0007651  0.0017775    0.43    0.667    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.653 on 835 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0002219,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0009755 
F-statistic: 0.1853 on 1 and 835 DF,  p-value: 0.667