Ryerson Project Item 85 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.91 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 223 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	6.91
Median	7.00
Standard deviation	2.24
N	223
Standard error	0.150

All-Time Distribution

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 50 out of 139 qualifying items and is at the 64.5 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 2026-10-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.530 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.603, 0.543].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.203 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.637, 1.231]. 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 
-6.9459 -1.1485  0.1562  1.2468  3.3736 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.150103   0.292341  24.458   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003294   0.003382  -0.974    0.331    
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.243 on 221 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.004275,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.000231 
F-statistic: 0.9487 on 1 and 221 DF,  p-value: 0.3311