Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 77
I believe campaign donations give wealthy people too much influence.
American adults' average (mean) response was 7.96 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 174 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-26.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 7.96 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.28 |
| N | 174 |
| Standard error | 0.173 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 18 out of 132 qualifying items and is at the 87.0 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 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is 0.422 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.784, 1.628].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.328 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.470, 5.126]. 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
-7.9092 -1.0147 0.2489 1.9344 2.2326
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.749232 0.350776 22.09 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.003636 0.005268 0.69 0.491
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.285 on 172 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.002762, Adjusted R-squared: -0.003035
F-statistic: 0.4765 on 1 and 172 DF, p-value: 0.491