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Ryerson Project Item 49

Within the past year, I personally have been decapitated.

American adults' average (mean) response was 0.54 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 142 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-05.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean0.54
Median0.00
Standard deviation1.63
N142
Standard error0.137

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 126 Response 1: 2 Response 2: 0 Response 3: 1 Response 4: 2 Response 5: 6 Response 6: 3 Response 7: 1 Response 8: 1 Response 9: 0 Response 10: 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 126 Response value Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 123 out of 123 qualifying items and is at the 0.0 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: 83.7% 2026-05 response 1: 4.7% 2026-05 response 2: 0.0% 2026-05 response 3: 2.3% 2026-05 response 4: 2.3% 2026-05 response 5: 2.3% 2026-05 response 6: 0.0% 2026-05 response 7: 2.3% 2026-05 response 8: 2.3% 2026-05 response 9: 0.0% 2026-05 response 10: 0.0% 2026-06 response 0: 85.7% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 0.0% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 2.4% 2026-06 response 5: 4.8% 2026-06 response 6: 7.1% 2026-06 response 7: 0.0% 2026-06 response 8: 0.0% 2026-06 response 9: 0.0% 2026-06 response 10: 0.0% 2026-07 response 0: 95.9% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 0.0% 2026-07 response 3: 0.0% 2026-07 response 4: 0.0% 2026-07 response 5: 4.1% 2026-07 response 6: 0.0% 2026-07 response 7: 0.0% 2026-07 response 8: 0.0% 2026-07 response 9: 0.0% 2026-07 response 10: 0.0% 2026-08 response 0: 87.5% 2026-08 response 1: 0.0% 2026-08 response 2: 0.0% 2026-08 response 3: 0.0% 2026-08 response 4: 0.0% 2026-08 response 5: 12.5% 2026-08 response 6: 0.0% 2026-08 response 7: 0.0% 2026-08 response 8: 0.0% 2026-08 response 9: 0.0% 2026-08 response 10: 0.0% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-05. The estimated change over that period is -0.468 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.417, 0.481].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.780 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-5.391, 1.832]. 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 
-0.7857 -0.6347 -0.4958 -0.3764  7.3264 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)       0.785710   0.291117   2.699  0.00781 **
days_since_start -0.004873   0.005001  -0.974  0.33156   
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.627 on 140 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.006736,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0003592 
F-statistic: 0.9494 on 1 and 140 DF,  p-value: 0.3316