Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 68
I believe people are more isolated because of the internet.
American adults' average (mean) response was 7.38 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 602 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-17.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 7.38 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.42 |
| N | 602 |
| Standard error | 0.099 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 32 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 76.9 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 2026-09-17. The estimated change over that period is 0.631 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.199, 1.462].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.659 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.522, 3.841]. 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
-7.5765 -1.3766 0.5371 2.3917 2.9823
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.981383 0.285746 24.432 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.004543 0.003041 1.494 0.136
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.416 on 600 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.003705, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002044
F-statistic: 2.231 on 1 and 600 DF, p-value: 0.1358