Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 74
I believe political parties do more harm than good.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.59 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 181 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-28.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.59 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.46 |
| N | 181 |
| Standard error | 0.183 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 59 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 56.4 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 0.128 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.121, 1.377].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.393 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.440, 4.227]. 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
-6.6515 -1.5751 0.4012 1.4605 3.4745
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.524430 0.353544 18.454 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.001077 0.005319 0.202 0.84
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.467 on 179 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.000229, Adjusted R-squared: -0.005356
F-statistic: 0.041 on 1 and 179 DF, p-value: 0.8398