Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 80
I believe local news is important for democracy.
American adults' average (mean) response was 7.29 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 170 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 7.29 |
|---|---|
| Median | 8.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.53 |
| N | 170 |
| Standard error | 0.194 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 38 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 72.2 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 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is 0.111 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.196, 1.418].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.346 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.734, 4.427]. 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
-7.3197 -1.3085 0.6865 1.7588 2.7657
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.2343087 0.3758525 19.248 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.0009485 0.0056586 0.168 0.867
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.534 on 168 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0001672, Adjusted R-squared: -0.005784
F-statistic: 0.0281 on 1 and 168 DF, p-value: 0.8671