Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 98
I believe people should have fewer possessions.
American adults' average (mean) response was 4.96 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 193 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-12 to 2026-09-09.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 4.96 |
|---|---|
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.61 |
| N | 193 |
| Standard error | 0.188 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 96 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 29.1 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 2026-05-12 to 2026-09-09. The estimated change over that period is -0.248 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.609, 1.113].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.755 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-4.896, 3.387]. 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
-5.0753 -1.9328 0.0755 1.9846 5.1210
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 5.087744 0.405749 12.539 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002066 0.005749 -0.359 0.72
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.616 on 191 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.000676, Adjusted R-squared: -0.004556
F-statistic: 0.1292 on 1 and 191 DF, p-value: 0.7197