Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 64
I worry that companies collect too much personal data.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.04 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 329 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.04 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.17 |
| N | 329 |
| Standard error | 0.120 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 18 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 87.7 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 2026-10-09. The estimated change over that period is 0.073 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.804, 0.950].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.166 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-1.825, 2.156]. 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
-8.0635 -1.0303 -0.0013 1.9465 1.9969
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.0003946 0.2672819 29.932 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.0004538 0.0027703 0.164 0.87
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.177 on 327 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 8.205e-05, Adjusted R-squared: -0.002976
F-statistic: 0.02683 on 1 and 327 DF, p-value: 0.87