Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 85
I believe professional sports bring communities together.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.76 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 253 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-29.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.76 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.29 |
| N | 253 |
| Standard error | 0.144 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 54 out of 142 qualifying items and is at the 62.4 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 decreasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-29. The estimated change over that period is -1.200 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.171, -0.228].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.421 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.382, -0.460]. 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
-6.9157 -1.2926 0.1904 1.4688 3.8731
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.326663 0.273427 26.796 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006628 0.002726 -2.432 0.0157 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.264 on 251 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.02302, Adjusted R-squared: 0.01913
F-statistic: 5.914 on 1 and 251 DF, p-value: 0.01572