Ryerson Project Item 54 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 4.72 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 254 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-27.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	4.72
Median	5.00
Standard deviation	2.86
N	254
Standard error	0.180

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 108 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 24.1 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 2026-10-27. The estimated change over that period is -0.268 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.456, 0.920].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.547 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.971, 1.877]. 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 
-4.8368 -1.8330  0.2696  2.2539  5.4195 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       4.848748   0.339899  14.265   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001499   0.003370  -0.445    0.657    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.866 on 252 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0007842,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.003181 
F-statistic: 0.1978 on 1 and 252 DF,  p-value: 0.6569