Ryerson Project Item 41 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.20 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 894 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	4.20
Median	5.00
Standard deviation	2.83
N	894
Standard error	0.095

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 104 out of 132 qualifying items and is at the 21.4 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 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is -0.030 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.739, 0.679].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.092 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.306, 2.121]. 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 
-4.2184 -2.2101  0.7916  1.8067  5.8110 

Coefficients:
                   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       4.2186355  0.2437022  17.311   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0002532  0.0030877  -0.082    0.935    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.834 on 892 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  7.54e-06,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.001114 
F-statistic: 0.006725 on 1 and 892 DF,  p-value: 0.9347