Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 31
I believe police officers in my community generally act appropriately.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.04 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 424 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.04 |
|---|---|
| Median | 6.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.58 |
| N | 424 |
| Standard error | 0.126 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 78 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 45.4 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 2026-10-28. The estimated change over that period is 0.419 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.447, 1.286].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.851 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.907, 2.610]. 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
-6.2902 -1.1160 0.0838 1.9515 4.1036
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.882445 0.209861 28.030 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.002330 0.002449 0.951 0.342
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.585 on 422 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.00214, Adjusted R-squared: -0.0002243
F-statistic: 0.9051 on 1 and 422 DF, p-value: 0.342