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Ryerson Project Item 4

I support further development of artificial intelligence.

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.31 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,138 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean5.31
Median6.00
Standard deviation3.01
N1,138
Standard error0.089

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 117 Response 1: 58 Response 2: 69 Response 3: 77 Response 4: 66 Response 5: 172 Response 6: 129 Response 7: 149 Response 8: 139 Response 9: 55 Response 10: 107 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 172 Response value Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 82 out of 132 qualifying items and is at the 38.2 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: 9.8% 2026-05 response 1: 5.0% 2026-05 response 2: 5.6% 2026-05 response 3: 5.6% 2026-05 response 4: 6.7% 2026-05 response 5: 13.2% 2026-05 response 6: 9.0% 2026-05 response 7: 14.6% 2026-05 response 8: 14.6% 2026-05 response 9: 5.9% 2026-05 response 10: 10.1% 2026-06 response 0: 9.6% 2026-06 response 1: 3.4% 2026-06 response 2: 5.1% 2026-06 response 3: 8.5% 2026-06 response 4: 4.2% 2026-06 response 5: 17.6% 2026-06 response 6: 13.6% 2026-06 response 7: 13.3% 2026-06 response 8: 10.8% 2026-06 response 9: 5.1% 2026-06 response 10: 8.8% 2026-07 response 0: 12.2% 2026-07 response 1: 8.3% 2026-07 response 2: 7.7% 2026-07 response 3: 7.2% 2026-07 response 4: 7.7% 2026-07 response 5: 13.8% 2026-07 response 6: 10.5% 2026-07 response 7: 10.5% 2026-07 response 8: 7.7% 2026-07 response 9: 3.9% 2026-07 response 10: 10.5% 2026-08 response 0: 10.5% 2026-08 response 1: 5.3% 2026-08 response 2: 6.9% 2026-08 response 3: 5.7% 2026-08 response 4: 5.3% 2026-08 response 5: 15.4% 2026-08 response 6: 12.1% 2026-08 response 7: 12.6% 2026-08 response 8: 14.2% 2026-08 response 9: 3.6% 2026-08 response 10: 8.5% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is -0.456 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.040, 0.128].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.423 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.245, 0.400]. 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 
-5.5184 -2.3266  0.5127  2.5244  4.9334 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.522345   0.163684  33.738   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003895   0.002543  -1.532    0.126    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.003 on 1136 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.002061,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.001183 
F-statistic: 2.346 on 1 and 1136 DF,  p-value: 0.1259