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Ryerson Project Item 46

I believe remote work has weakened workplace relationships.

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.42 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 147 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-02 to 2026-10-24.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean4.42
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.93
N147
Standard error0.242

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 20 Response 1: 10 Response 2: 12 Response 3: 19 Response 4: 12 Response 5: 19 Response 6: 14 Response 7: 14 Response 8: 13 Response 9: 10 Response 10: 4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 20 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 112 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 21.3 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: 12.8% 2026-05 response 1: 5.1% 2026-05 response 2: 5.1% 2026-05 response 3: 12.8% 2026-05 response 4: 10.3% 2026-05 response 5: 12.8% 2026-05 response 6: 5.1% 2026-05 response 7: 15.4% 2026-05 response 8: 5.1% 2026-05 response 9: 10.3% 2026-05 response 10: 5.1% 2026-06 response 0: 14.0% 2026-06 response 1: 6.0% 2026-06 response 2: 10.0% 2026-06 response 3: 14.0% 2026-06 response 4: 10.0% 2026-06 response 5: 14.0% 2026-06 response 6: 10.0% 2026-06 response 7: 8.0% 2026-06 response 8: 12.0% 2026-06 response 9: 2.0% 2026-06 response 10: 0.0% 2026-07 response 0: 17.9% 2026-07 response 1: 10.7% 2026-07 response 2: 0.0% 2026-07 response 3: 10.7% 2026-07 response 4: 10.7% 2026-07 response 5: 7.1% 2026-07 response 6: 7.1% 2026-07 response 7: 7.1% 2026-07 response 8: 10.7% 2026-07 response 9: 10.7% 2026-07 response 10: 7.1% 2026-10 response 0: 10.0% 2026-10 response 1: 6.7% 2026-10 response 2: 16.7% 2026-10 response 3: 13.3% 2026-10 response 4: 0.0% 2026-10 response 5: 16.7% 2026-10 response 6: 16.7% 2026-10 response 7: 6.7% 2026-10 response 8: 6.7% 2026-10 response 9: 6.7% 2026-10 response 10: 0.0% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Oct 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-02 to 2026-10-24. The estimated change over that period is -0.487 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.015, 1.040].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.017 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.206, 2.172]. 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 
-4.6083 -2.3089  0.3945  2.4614  5.6201 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       4.608255   0.382304   12.05   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002785   0.004417   -0.63    0.529    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.937 on 145 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.002734,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.004144 
F-statistic: 0.3975 on 1 and 145 DF,  p-value: 0.5294