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Ryerson Project Item 37

I believe large corporations have too much power.

American adults' average (mean) response was 8.48 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 337 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean8.48
Median9.00
Standard deviation2.14
N337
Standard error0.117

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 3 Response 1: 2 Response 2: 6 Response 3: 1 Response 4: 5 Response 5: 23 Response 6: 13 Response 7: 28 Response 8: 40 Response 9: 48 Response 10: 168 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 168 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

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

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 1.7% 2026-05 response 1: 0.9% 2026-05 response 2: 1.7% 2026-05 response 3: 0.0% 2026-05 response 4: 0.0% 2026-05 response 5: 7.0% 2026-05 response 6: 3.5% 2026-05 response 7: 9.6% 2026-05 response 8: 13.0% 2026-05 response 9: 15.7% 2026-05 response 10: 47.0% 2026-06 response 0: 0.0% 2026-06 response 1: 0.8% 2026-06 response 2: 2.3% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 3.1% 2026-06 response 5: 6.2% 2026-06 response 6: 3.9% 2026-06 response 7: 7.0% 2026-06 response 8: 10.9% 2026-06 response 9: 13.3% 2026-06 response 10: 52.3% 2026-07 response 0: 0.0% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 2.6% 2026-07 response 3: 0.0% 2026-07 response 4: 2.6% 2026-07 response 5: 10.3% 2026-07 response 6: 7.7% 2026-07 response 7: 7.7% 2026-07 response 8: 10.3% 2026-07 response 9: 15.4% 2026-07 response 10: 43.6% 2026-08 response 0: 2.8% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 0.0% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 0.0% 2026-08 response 5: 2.8% 2026-08 response 6: 0.0% 2026-08 response 7: 8.3% 2026-08 response 8: 13.9% 2026-08 response 9: 16.7% 2026-08 response 10: 55.6% 2026-09 response 0: 0.0% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 5.3% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 10.5% 2026-09 response 6: 5.3% 2026-09 response 7: 10.5% 2026-09 response 8: 10.5% 2026-09 response 9: 5.3% 2026-09 response 10: 52.6% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

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 0.307 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.593, 1.207].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.801 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.546, 3.148]. 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 
-8.5948 -0.5948  0.6178  1.5301  1.6310 

Coefficients:
                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)      8.369001   0.203297  41.166   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.002193   0.003267   0.671    0.503    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.143 on 335 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.001343,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.001638 
F-statistic: 0.4504 on 1 and 335 DF,  p-value: 0.5026