Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 9
I trust scientists to provide reliable information about important public issues.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.92 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 736 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-06.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.92 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.44 |
| N | 736 |
| Standard error | 0.090 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 46 out of 123 qualifying items and is at the 63.1 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 2026-08-06. The estimated change over that period is -0.594 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.253, 0.064].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -2.237 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.717, 0.242]. 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
-7.0938 -1.1367 0.3871 1.9307 3.4024
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 7.191784 0.177883 40.430 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.006126 0.003458 -1.772 0.0769 .
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.438 on 734 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.004258, Adjusted R-squared: 0.002901
F-statistic: 3.138 on 1 and 734 DF, p-value: 0.07688