Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 50
I believe college is worth the cost for most people.
American adults' average (mean) response was 4.95 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 1,133 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 4.95 |
|---|---|
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.77 |
| N | 1,133 |
| Standard error | 0.082 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 103 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 27.7 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 unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-28. The estimated change over that period is -0.554 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.297, 0.188].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.124 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.631, 0.382]. 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
-5.294 -1.965 0.066 2.047 5.257
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.297303 0.248968 21.277 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003079 0.002102 -1.464 0.143
---
Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.772 on 1131 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.001893, Adjusted R-squared: 0.00101
F-statistic: 2.145 on 1 and 1131 DF, p-value: 0.1433