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). 241 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-02.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.70 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.61 |
| N | 241 |
| Standard error | 0.104 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 7 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 95.7 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 2026-10-02. The estimated change over that period is 0.432 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.259, 1.123].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.025 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-0.614, 2.664]. 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
-6.6173 -0.7548 0.3855 1.2452 1.5062
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.491041 0.199740 42.511 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.002806 0.002278 1.232 0.219
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.611 on 239 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.006308, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002151
F-statistic: 1.517 on 1 and 239 DF, p-value: 0.2192