Ryerson Project Item 7 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 3.64 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 588 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	3.64
Median	3.00
Standard deviation	2.76
N	588
Standard error	0.114

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 117 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 13.4 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 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.062 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.055, 0.931].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.173 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.942, 2.596]. 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 
-3.6630 -2.6364 -0.6328  2.3456  6.3918 

Coefficients:
                   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       3.6630475  0.2004339  18.276   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0004725  0.0038600  -0.122    0.903    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.761 on 586 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  2.557e-05,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.001681 
F-statistic: 0.01498 on 1 and 586 DF,  p-value: 0.9026