Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 35
I believe universities are a positive force in society.
American adults' average (mean) response was 7.08 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 520 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 7.08 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.44 |
| N | 520 |
| Standard error | 0.107 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 42 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 69.4 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 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is -0.533 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.234, 0.167].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.392 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.219, 0.436]. 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
-7.3460 -1.2898 0.6959 1.8588 3.1722
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.349784 0.209097 35.150 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003810 0.002547 -1.496 0.135
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.433 on 518 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.004302, Adjusted R-squared: 0.00238
F-statistic: 2.238 on 1 and 518 DF, p-value: 0.1352