Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 72
I believe political leaders care about ordinary people.
American adults' average (mean) response was 2.83 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 166 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 2.83 |
|---|---|
| Median | 2.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.57 |
| N | 166 |
| Standard error | 0.199 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 127 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 6.0 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 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is 0.020 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.271, 1.311].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.053 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.315, 3.420]. 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
-2.8416 -1.8396 -0.8256 1.1768 7.1779
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 2.8217156 0.3707611 7.611 2.03e-12 ***
days_since_start 0.0001438 0.0046698 0.031 0.975
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.577 on 164 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 5.778e-06, Adjusted R-squared: -0.006092
F-statistic: 0.0009476 on 1 and 164 DF, p-value: 0.9755