Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 70
I believe fact-checking organizations are generally trustworthy.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.56 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 149 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.56 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.35 |
| N | 149 |
| Standard error | 0.193 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 61 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 55.2 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 -0.091 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.570, 1.389].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.253 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.378, 3.872]. 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
-6.5616 -1.5637 0.4315 1.4439 3.4896
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.5975830 0.3398136 19.415 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0006921 0.0057149 -0.121 0.904
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.363 on 147 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 9.976e-05, Adjusted R-squared: -0.006702
F-statistic: 0.01467 on 1 and 147 DF, p-value: 0.9038