Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 82
I believe people should pay for high-quality journalism.
American adults' average (mean) response was 3.91 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 243 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-02 to 2026-09-17.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 3.91 |
|---|---|
| Median | 4.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.91 |
| N | 243 |
| Standard error | 0.186 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 111 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 17.9 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 2026-09-17. The estimated change over that period is 0.276 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.042, 1.595].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 0.732 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.759, 4.222]. 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
-4.0444 -2.8120 0.0818 2.0788 6.1840
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.781993 0.369438 10.237 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.002003 0.004851 0.413 0.68
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.912 on 241 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0007068, Adjusted R-squared: -0.00344
F-statistic: 0.1704 on 1 and 241 DF, p-value: 0.6801