Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 58
I tell other people what they want to hear so that they will do what I want them to do.
American adults' average (mean) response was 2.84 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 316 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-02 to 2026-10-31.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 2.84 |
|---|---|
| Median | 2.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.52 |
| N | 316 |
| Standard error | 0.142 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 133 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 6.4 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 2026-05-02 to 2026-10-31. The estimated change over that period is -0.978 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.984, 0.028].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.962 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.981, 0.057]. 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
-3.268 -2.307 -0.406 1.800 7.070
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.279004 0.271502 12.077 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.005373 0.002809 -1.912 0.0567 .
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.509 on 314 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01151, Adjusted R-squared: 0.008366
F-statistic: 3.657 on 1 and 314 DF, p-value: 0.05673