Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 37
I believe large corporations have too much power.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.49 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 326 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.49 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.13 |
| N | 326 |
| Standard error | 0.118 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 8 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 94.8 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 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is 0.462 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.470, 1.394].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.289 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.310, 3.888]. 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
-8.6845 -0.6581 0.6471 1.5271 1.6788
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.321171 0.210266 39.575 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.003528 0.003617 0.975 0.33
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.134 on 324 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.002928, Adjusted R-squared: -0.0001498
F-statistic: 0.9513 on 1 and 324 DF, p-value: 0.3301