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Ryerson Project Item 41

I trust Artificial Intelligence.

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.18 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,100 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-16.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean4.18
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.87
N1,100
Standard error0.087

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 184 Response 1: 85 Response 2: 89 Response 3: 97 Response 4: 71 Response 5: 174 Response 6: 141 Response 7: 120 Response 8: 73 Response 9: 37 Response 10: 29 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 184 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 108 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 20.1 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: 14.4% 2026-05 response 1: 4.8% 2026-05 response 2: 9.6% 2026-05 response 3: 8.8% 2026-05 response 4: 8.0% 2026-05 response 5: 16.8% 2026-05 response 6: 16.0% 2026-05 response 7: 8.8% 2026-05 response 8: 4.0% 2026-05 response 9: 6.4% 2026-05 response 10: 2.4% 2026-06 response 0: 17.4% 2026-06 response 1: 6.8% 2026-06 response 2: 7.6% 2026-06 response 3: 9.1% 2026-06 response 4: 9.1% 2026-06 response 5: 12.9% 2026-06 response 6: 12.1% 2026-06 response 7: 12.9% 2026-06 response 8: 5.3% 2026-06 response 9: 4.5% 2026-06 response 10: 2.3% 2026-07 response 0: 17.0% 2026-07 response 1: 9.8% 2026-07 response 2: 7.8% 2026-07 response 3: 7.5% 2026-07 response 4: 5.2% 2026-07 response 5: 17.0% 2026-07 response 6: 15.0% 2026-07 response 7: 11.0% 2026-07 response 8: 6.1% 2026-07 response 9: 2.6% 2026-07 response 10: 1.2% 2026-08 response 0: 16.6% 2026-08 response 1: 5.3% 2026-08 response 2: 8.0% 2026-08 response 3: 10.7% 2026-08 response 4: 6.2% 2026-08 response 5: 17.2% 2026-08 response 6: 11.5% 2026-08 response 7: 10.9% 2026-08 response 8: 6.8% 2026-08 response 9: 2.4% 2026-08 response 10: 4.4% 2026-09 response 0: 17.7% 2026-09 response 1: 11.4% 2026-09 response 2: 8.2% 2026-09 response 3: 7.6% 2026-09 response 4: 6.3% 2026-09 response 5: 12.0% 2026-09 response 6: 8.9% 2026-09 response 7: 10.8% 2026-09 response 8: 10.8% 2026-09 response 9: 3.8% 2026-09 response 10: 2.5% 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 2026-09-16. The estimated change over that period is -0.098 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.760, 0.564].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.259 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.012, 1.493]. 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 
-4.2412 -2.2298  0.7823  1.8430  5.8554 

Coefficients:
                   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       4.2418718  0.2212903   19.17   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0007102  0.0024448   -0.29    0.771    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.876 on 1098 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  7.685e-05,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0008338 
F-statistic: 0.08439 on 1 and 1098 DF,  p-value: 0.7715