Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 50
I believe college is worth the cost for most people.
American adults' average (mean) response was 5.06 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 642 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 5.06 |
|---|---|
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.69 |
| N | 642 |
| Standard error | 0.106 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 92 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 31.6 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 2026-08-28. The estimated change over that period is -0.204 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.095, 0.687].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.626 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.362, 2.109]. 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
-5.1992 -2.0325 -0.0329 1.9559 5.0031
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.200955 0.339397 15.32 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001714 0.003814 -0.45 0.653
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.694 on 640 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0003156, Adjusted R-squared: -0.001246
F-statistic: 0.2021 on 1 and 640 DF, p-value: 0.6532