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 2.97 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 232 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 2.97 |
|---|---|
| Median | 2.50 |
| Standard deviation | 2.60 |
| N | 232 |
| Standard error | 0.170 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 125 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 6.8 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 2026-08-28. The estimated change over that period is -0.657 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.030, 0.717].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.032 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-6.284, 2.219]. 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
-3.280 -2.371 -0.482 1.939 7.071
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.290825 0.376931 8.731 5.27e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.005564 0.005907 -0.942 0.347
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.596 on 230 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.003843, Adjusted R-squared: -0.0004882
F-statistic: 0.8873 on 1 and 230 DF, p-value: 0.3472