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Ryerson Project Item 40

I expect developing artificial intelligence will increase my quality of life.

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.79 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,114 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-27.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean4.79
Median5.00
Standard deviation3.05
N1,114
Standard error0.091

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 149 Response 1: 68 Response 2: 101 Response 3: 76 Response 4: 63 Response 5: 152 Response 6: 139 Response 7: 129 Response 8: 115 Response 9: 46 Response 10: 76 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 152 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 106 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 25.5 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: 6.9% 2026-05 response 1: 6.9% 2026-05 response 2: 6.9% 2026-05 response 3: 3.4% 2026-05 response 4: 10.3% 2026-05 response 5: 8.6% 2026-05 response 6: 15.5% 2026-05 response 7: 18.1% 2026-05 response 8: 10.3% 2026-05 response 9: 6.0% 2026-05 response 10: 6.9% 2026-06 response 0: 13.4% 2026-06 response 1: 3.1% 2026-06 response 2: 3.9% 2026-06 response 3: 7.1% 2026-06 response 4: 5.5% 2026-06 response 5: 17.3% 2026-06 response 6: 13.4% 2026-06 response 7: 11.8% 2026-06 response 8: 14.2% 2026-06 response 9: 3.9% 2026-06 response 10: 6.3% 2026-07 response 0: 12.7% 2026-07 response 1: 6.9% 2026-07 response 2: 9.2% 2026-07 response 3: 7.7% 2026-07 response 4: 5.8% 2026-07 response 5: 11.5% 2026-07 response 6: 16.5% 2026-07 response 7: 10.0% 2026-07 response 8: 10.0% 2026-07 response 9: 2.7% 2026-07 response 10: 6.9% 2026-08 response 0: 12.0% 2026-08 response 1: 5.6% 2026-08 response 2: 9.8% 2026-08 response 3: 8.1% 2026-08 response 4: 4.7% 2026-08 response 5: 15.0% 2026-08 response 6: 11.5% 2026-08 response 7: 13.7% 2026-08 response 8: 8.1% 2026-08 response 9: 5.1% 2026-08 response 10: 6.4% 2026-09 response 0: 16.8% 2026-09 response 1: 7.2% 2026-09 response 2: 11.1% 2026-09 response 3: 6.1% 2026-09 response 4: 5.4% 2026-09 response 5: 12.9% 2026-09 response 6: 9.7% 2026-09 response 7: 9.0% 2026-09 response 8: 10.8% 2026-09 response 9: 3.6% 2026-09 response 10: 7.5% 2026-10 response 0: 16.3% 2026-10 response 1: 5.1% 2026-10 response 2: 10.2% 2026-10 response 3: 7.1% 2026-10 response 4: 3.1% 2026-10 response 5: 19.4% 2026-10 response 6: 7.1% 2026-10 response 7: 10.2% 2026-10 response 8: 10.2% 2026-10 response 9: 5.1% 2026-10 response 10: 6.1% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

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 -0.995 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.720, -0.270].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.029 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.509, -0.550]. 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 
-5.2907 -2.6268  0.3899  2.3135  5.6483 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.329621   0.218760  24.363  < 2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.005556   0.002064  -2.691  0.00722 ** 
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.044 on 1112 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.006472,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.005579 
F-statistic: 7.244 on 1 and 1112 DF,  p-value: 0.007221