Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 73
I believe compromise in politics is usually a good thing.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.60 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 222 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.60 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.30 |
| N | 222 |
| Standard error | 0.154 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 59 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 56.7 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 increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is 1.176 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.027, 2.326].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 3.280 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.076, 6.484]. 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
-6.8090 -1.4139 0.0922 1.5435 3.9812
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.982830 0.343820 17.401 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.008980 0.004451 2.018 0.0449 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.286 on 220 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01817, Adjusted R-squared: 0.0137
F-statistic: 4.071 on 1 and 220 DF, p-value: 0.04485