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Ryerson Project Item 48

I believe parents should have more control over what schools teach.

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.03 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 187 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean5.03
Median5.00
Standard deviation3.24
N187
Standard error0.237

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 24 Response 1: 9 Response 2: 20 Response 3: 10 Response 4: 13 Response 5: 28 Response 6: 18 Response 7: 15 Response 8: 18 Response 9: 7 Response 10: 25 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 28 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 93 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 31.3 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: 10.2% 2026-05 response 1: 4.1% 2026-05 response 2: 8.2% 2026-05 response 3: 10.2% 2026-05 response 4: 16.3% 2026-05 response 5: 12.2% 2026-05 response 6: 6.1% 2026-05 response 7: 4.1% 2026-05 response 8: 8.2% 2026-05 response 9: 2.0% 2026-05 response 10: 18.4% 2026-06 response 0: 7.4% 2026-06 response 1: 3.7% 2026-06 response 2: 11.1% 2026-06 response 3: 3.7% 2026-06 response 4: 5.6% 2026-06 response 5: 20.4% 2026-06 response 6: 9.3% 2026-06 response 7: 11.1% 2026-06 response 8: 7.4% 2026-06 response 9: 7.4% 2026-06 response 10: 13.0% 2026-07 response 0: 16.3% 2026-07 response 1: 4.7% 2026-07 response 2: 14.0% 2026-07 response 3: 2.3% 2026-07 response 4: 2.3% 2026-07 response 5: 16.3% 2026-07 response 6: 11.6% 2026-07 response 7: 7.0% 2026-07 response 8: 14.0% 2026-07 response 9: 2.3% 2026-07 response 10: 9.3% 2026-08 response 0: 16.2% 2026-08 response 1: 8.1% 2026-08 response 2: 10.8% 2026-08 response 3: 5.4% 2026-08 response 4: 2.7% 2026-08 response 5: 10.8% 2026-08 response 6: 13.5% 2026-08 response 7: 8.1% 2026-08 response 8: 10.8% 2026-08 response 9: 2.7% 2026-08 response 10: 10.8% 2026-09 response 0: 50.0% 2026-09 response 1: 0.0% 2026-09 response 2: 0.0% 2026-09 response 3: 0.0% 2026-09 response 4: 0.0% 2026-09 response 5: 0.0% 2026-09 response 6: 0.0% 2026-09 response 7: 25.0% 2026-09 response 8: 0.0% 2026-09 response 9: 0.0% 2026-09 response 10: 25.0% 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 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.829 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.581, 0.923].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.311 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-7.196, 2.575]. 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 
-5.381 -2.922 -0.014  2.727  5.410 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.399861   0.459944  11.740   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006326   0.006780  -0.933    0.352    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.242 on 185 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.004685,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0006954 
F-statistic: 0.8707 on 1 and 185 DF,  p-value: 0.352