Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 4
I support further development of artificial intelligence.
American adults' average (mean) response was 5.19 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,837 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-27.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 5.19 |
|---|---|
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard deviation | 3.07 |
| N | 1,837 |
| Standard error | 0.072 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 92 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 35.5 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 decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-27. The estimated change over that period is -0.517 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.971, -0.062].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.054 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.982, -0.126]. 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
-5.4503 -2.3319 0.0375 2.5930 5.0577
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.453177 0.137505 39.658 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002886 0.001296 -2.228 0.026 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 3.068 on 1835 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.002698, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002154
F-statistic: 4.964 on 1 and 1835 DF, p-value: 0.026