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Ryerson Project Item 41

I trust Artificial Intelligence.

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.16 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,340 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean4.16
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.85
N1,340
Standard error0.078

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 221 Response 1: 106 Response 2: 110 Response 3: 121 Response 4: 84 Response 5: 220 Response 6: 172 Response 7: 137 Response 8: 94 Response 9: 41 Response 10: 34 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 221 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 113 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 18.8 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: 17.5% 2026-09 response 1: 9.8% 2026-09 response 2: 8.0% 2026-09 response 3: 8.6% 2026-09 response 4: 6.4% 2026-09 response 5: 16.3% 2026-09 response 6: 10.4% 2026-09 response 7: 8.3% 2026-09 response 8: 9.2% 2026-09 response 9: 2.8% 2026-09 response 10: 2.8% 2026-10 response 0: 11.1% 2026-10 response 1: 9.7% 2026-10 response 2: 11.1% 2026-10 response 3: 11.1% 2026-10 response 4: 2.8% 2026-10 response 5: 16.7% 2026-10 response 6: 15.3% 2026-10 response 7: 9.7% 2026-10 response 8: 11.1% 2026-10 response 9: 1.4% 2026-10 response 10: 0.0% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-06. The estimated change over that period is -0.176 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.768, 0.417].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.406 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.776, 0.964]. 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 
-4.2664 -2.2391  0.7775  1.8870  5.9015 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       4.267477   0.197616  21.595   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001111   0.001912  -0.581    0.561    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.855 on 1338 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0002524,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0004948 
F-statistic: 0.3378 on 1 and 1338 DF,  p-value: 0.5612