Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 71
I believe public figures should be held to high standards of personal conduct.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.70 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 193 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.70 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.65 |
| N | 193 |
| Standard error | 0.119 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 7 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 95.5 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 2026-08-28. The estimated change over that period is 0.637 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.132, 1.406].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.956 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.405, 4.317]. 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
-6.6243 -0.6939 0.4935 1.2632 1.6113
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.383345 0.226631 36.991 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.005355 0.003277 1.634 0.104
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.639 on 191 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01379, Adjusted R-squared: 0.008622
F-statistic: 2.67 on 1 and 191 DF, p-value: 0.1039