Ryerson Project Item 88 Report

American adults' average (mean) response was 6.75 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 267 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-31.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean	6.75
Median	8.00
Standard deviation	3.50
N	267
Standard error	0.214

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 unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-10-31. The estimated change over that period is -0.934 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-2.426, 0.558].

Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.864 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.841, 1.114]. 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 
-7.193 -2.061  1.001  3.121  3.710 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.223810   0.440723  16.391   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.005102   0.004140  -1.232    0.219    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 3.497 on 265 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.005698,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.001946 
F-statistic: 1.519 on 1 and 265 DF,  p-value: 0.2189