Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 97
I believe pets improve people's quality of life.
American adults' average (mean) response was 8.74 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 167 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-08-27.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 8.74 |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.58 |
| N | 167 |
| Standard error | 0.122 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 6 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 96.2 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 2026-05-12 to 2026-08-27. The estimated change over that period is -0.174 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.037, 0.689].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.594 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.541, 2.353]. 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
-5.6492 -0.7810 0.3264 1.2589 1.3557
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.818372 0.239194 36.867 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.001627 0.004086 -0.398 0.691
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.58 on 165 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0009597, Adjusted R-squared: -0.005095
F-statistic: 0.1585 on 1 and 165 DF, p-value: 0.6911