Ryerson Project Item 32 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.03 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 435 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-07.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	7.03
Median	8.00
Standard deviation	3.25
N	435
Standard error	0.156

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 44 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 68.8 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 2026-10-07. The estimated change over that period is 0.119 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.066, 1.303].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.272 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.448, 2.993]. 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 
-7.1043 -2.0305  0.9792  2.9516  3.0112 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      6.9887627  0.2704060  25.845   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.0007455  0.0037899   0.197    0.844    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.257 on 433 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  8.934e-05,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.00222 
F-statistic: 0.03869 on 1 and 433 DF,  p-value: 0.8442