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Ryerson Project Item 92

I believe therapy is helpful for most people who try it.

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.30 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 756 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-09-09.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean7.30
Median8.00
Standard deviation2.25
N756
Standard error0.082

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 13 Response 1: 8 Response 2: 12 Response 3: 13 Response 4: 21 Response 5: 82 Response 6: 79 Response 7: 127 Response 8: 164 Response 9: 90 Response 10: 147 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 164 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 36 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 73.9 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 0.0% 2026-05 response 1: 0.0% 2026-05 response 2: 0.0% 2026-05 response 3: 0.0% 2026-05 response 4: 3.4% 2026-05 response 5: 10.3% 2026-05 response 6: 6.9% 2026-05 response 7: 31.0% 2026-05 response 8: 17.2% 2026-05 response 9: 13.8% 2026-05 response 10: 17.2% 2026-06 response 0: 1.9% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 1.9% 2026-06 response 3: 0.0% 2026-06 response 4: 9.4% 2026-06 response 5: 11.3% 2026-06 response 6: 7.5% 2026-06 response 7: 13.2% 2026-06 response 8: 22.6% 2026-06 response 9: 13.2% 2026-06 response 10: 18.9% 2026-07 response 0: 2.3% 2026-07 response 1: 0.8% 2026-07 response 2: 1.1% 2026-07 response 3: 2.7% 2026-07 response 4: 2.7% 2026-07 response 5: 10.6% 2026-07 response 6: 10.2% 2026-07 response 7: 17.8% 2026-07 response 8: 22.7% 2026-07 response 9: 10.6% 2026-07 response 10: 18.6% 2026-08 response 0: 1.2% 2026-08 response 1: 1.2% 2026-08 response 2: 2.1% 2026-08 response 3: 1.5% 2026-08 response 4: 1.8% 2026-08 response 5: 11.2% 2026-08 response 6: 11.5% 2026-08 response 7: 14.8% 2026-08 response 8: 21.6% 2026-08 response 9: 13.3% 2026-08 response 10: 19.8% 2026-09 response 0: 2.8% 2026-09 response 1: 2.8% 2026-09 response 2: 1.4% 2026-09 response 3: 1.4% 2026-09 response 4: 2.8% 2026-09 response 5: 9.7% 2026-09 response 6: 9.7% 2026-09 response 7: 19.4% 2026-09 response 8: 19.4% 2026-09 response 9: 8.3% 2026-09 response 10: 22.2% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-12 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.166 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-0.882, 0.551].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.504 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.686, 1.677]. 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 
-7.3837 -1.2947  0.6605  1.7116  2.7544 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.411355   0.255244  29.036   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001381   0.003042  -0.454     0.65    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.247 on 754 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.0002732,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.001053 
F-statistic: 0.2061 on 1 and 754 DF,  p-value: 0.65