Ryerson Project Item 33 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.21 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 353 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	7.21
Median	9.00
Standard deviation	3.58
N	353
Standard error	0.190

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 40 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 70.9 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 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is 0.262 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.222, 1.746].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.683 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.189, 4.554]. 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 
-7.373 -2.184  1.817  2.797  2.888 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      7.111580   0.340952  20.858   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.001869   0.005389   0.347    0.729    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.581 on 351 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0003426,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.002505 
F-statistic: 0.1203 on 1 and 351 DF,  p-value: 0.7289