Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 44
I believe neighbors should know each other better.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.90 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 193 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-17.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.90 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.22 |
| N | 193 |
| Standard error | 0.160 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 51 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 62.7 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 increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-17. The estimated change over that period is 1.355 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.255, 2.455].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 3.560 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.670, 6.451]. 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
-7.2737 -1.5759 0.0967 1.5451 3.6913
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.250199 0.309392 20.20 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.009748 0.004012 2.43 0.016 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.196 on 191 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.02998, Adjusted R-squared: 0.0249
F-statistic: 5.904 on 1 and 191 DF, p-value: 0.01604